From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: EIEIO built in methods -- question
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:54:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li6jjy81.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87txl77fd3.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> There's not a lot of documentation out there about using EIEIO, so I
> want to check something. First of all I'm using emacs-version "24.3.1"
> (the archlinux package).
That's because it just tries to emulate CLOS. Use the Hyperspec or
other Common Lisp tutorial or book covering OOP.
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/c_object.htm
> This is so everyday in Python (the other language I have experience in)
> and so weird to me in (e)lisp that I'm experiencing a kind of cognitive
> clash, and want to make sure I'm not doing something very wrong.
All right. But what is it you want to do?
> How does
> this look to anyone who knows EIEIO (or I guess CLOS)?:
>
> (defclass persistent-thing (eieio-persistent)
> ()
> :documentation "Just for testing, :file slot comes from the superclass")
>
> (defmethod constructor :static ((thing persistent-thing) newname &rest slots)
> (let ((filename (plist-get slots :file)))
> (when (member filename my-big-bad-list-of-filenames)
> (error "There's already a thing writing to %s" filename))
> (apply 'call-next-method thing newname slots)))
>
> Is this how we should be doing it?
What "it"?
> Essentially, Python's "**kwargs"
> turns into "&rest slots" --> (apply 'call-next-method .... slots).
Yes, lisp &rest has been translated to python **.
> I'd be interested in writing up a small introduction about how to use
> "internal" methods, ie methods on the eieio-default-superclass.
The way to use "internal" methods is to NOT use them!
That's why they're internal, because external code don't, must not,
should not use them!
> So far I've messed with constructor, destructor, object-print, and I
> guess initialize-instance (oooh, damn, I just realized I should
> probably be using initialize-instance rather than constructor in my
> above example). There are several more I haven't experimented with,
> but that should be documented.
>
> If I make a documentation patch against the manual, will someone with
> actual EIEIO/CLOS experience take a look at it?
So I still don't know what you want :-(
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.
You can take the lisper out of the lisp job, but you can't take the lisp out
of the lisper (; -- antifuchs
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-09 10:22 EIEIO built in methods -- question Eric Abrahamsen
2013-06-09 10:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-06-09 11:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2013-06-09 15:22 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.1279.1370791373.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-09 20:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-06-10 15:48 ` David Engster
2013-06-11 2:16 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-06-12 15:44 ` David Engster
2013-06-13 5:11 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-06-13 9:06 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-06-13 15:49 ` David Engster
2013-06-14 1:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-06-14 15:14 ` David Engster
2013-06-14 16:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.1680.1371226519.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-14 18:29 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.1356.1370879310.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-10 19:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-06-11 15:43 ` David Engster
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