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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lisp error on function :documentation
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:15:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a65u1thy.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvwn8yd4f9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> OClosures are a generalization of closures where you specify
> parts which are officially exposed. You can think of them as
> callable objects.

Hm, what does "generalization" mean, here?

I was always puzzled by that word ...

Because that sounds like it is _less_ general, or more
precisely it sounds like it is a particular implementation of
a broader concept with specific details of its own?

-- 
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https://dataswamp.org/~incal




  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-17 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-15 23:48 Lisp error on function :documentation Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-16  2:48 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16  2:59   ` Heime
2022-10-16  3:37     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16  3:50       ` Heime
2022-10-16  4:12         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16  4:30           ` Heime
2022-10-16 22:53             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 23:08               ` Heime
2022-10-16 23:23                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 15:23           ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-16 22:58             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 23:09               ` Heime
2022-10-16 23:25                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16 23:39                   ` Heime
2022-10-16 23:43                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17  0:07                       ` Heime
2022-10-17  0:15                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17  1:01                           ` Heime
2022-10-17  1:15                             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17  1:01                           ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-17  1:22                             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17  1:27                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17  2:08                               ` Heime
2022-10-17  2:42                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-17  3:03                                   ` Heime
2022-10-17  3:19                                     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-17  1:00                 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-17  1:55                   ` Heime
2022-10-17 12:28                     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-17 13:15                       ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-10-17 19:27                         ` tomas
2022-10-17 21:32                           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-18  0:51                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-18  1:05                         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-16  3:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-16  4:00   ` Heime
2022-10-16  4:05     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-16  4:07     ` Stefan Monnier

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