From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: 22336@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22336: 25.0.50; cl-generic.el features are not documented in ELisp manual
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 10:25:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831t9iexrw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h9innmtv.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 09 Jan 2016 11:06:52 +0200)
Ping! Would someone please volunteer to write some documentation of
these?
> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 11:06:52 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
>
> It looks like the new features, implemented by cl-generic.el and used
> quite a lot in our sources, are not documented in any manual. Their doc
> strings are impenetrable to anyone who isn't already familiar with CLOS
> multiple-dispatch generics, as they use terminology ("specializers",
> "generalizers", "dispatch", etc.) not explained anywhere. NEWS has
> this to say about them:
>
> ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
>
> That's the entire text of the entry. It diesn't even mention the 2
> entry points, 'cl-defgeneric' and 'cl-defmethod'.
>
> The generics should be prominently documented either in the ELisp
> manual. Emacs 25.1 should have them documented, due to their wide usage
> in the core packages and elsewhere.
>
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.281 (i686-pc-mingw32)
> of 2016-01-08 built on HOME-C4E4A596F7
> Repository revision: 1a6b0846b5fbf08aa4288ae9e47c59cfca30459f
> Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> Configured using:
> 'configure --prefix=/d/usr --enable-checking=yes,glyphs --with-wide-int
> --with-modules 'CFLAGS=-O0 -gdwarf-4 -g3''
>
> Configured features:
> XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB
> TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS MODULES
>
> Important settings:
> value of $LANG: ENU
> locale-coding-system: cp1255
>
> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
>
> Minor modes in effect:
> tooltip-mode: t
> global-eldoc-mode: t
> electric-indent-mode: t
> mouse-wheel-mode: t
> tool-bar-mode: t
> menu-bar-mode: t
> file-name-shadow-mode: t
> global-font-lock-mode: t
> font-lock-mode: t
> blink-cursor-mode: t
> auto-composition-mode: t
> auto-encryption-mode: t
> auto-compression-mode: t
> line-number-mode: t
> transient-mark-mode: t
>
> Recent messages:
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
>
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
>
> Features:
> (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml
> mml-sec epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
> mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047
> rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase
> cl-lib mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric
> uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp
> disp-table w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image
> regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode
> prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
> mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham
> georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
> korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech
> european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook
> jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice
> loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay
> sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
> hashtable-print-readable backquote w32notify w32 multi-tty
> make-network-process emacs)
>
> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 92854 5930)
> (symbols 56 20660 0)
> (miscs 48 36 107)
> (strings 16 17691 6375)
> (string-bytes 1 438680)
> (vectors 16 12303)
> (vector-slots 8 418992 3863)
> (floats 8 162 76)
> (intervals 40 261 118)
> (buffers 856 11))
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-16 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-09 9:06 bug#22336: 25.0.50; cl-generic.el features are not documented in ELisp manual Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-09 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-16 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-01-22 21:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 5:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 8:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 17:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-24 0:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-24 0:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-24 5:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-24 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-24 23:00 ` Stefan Monnier
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