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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Gemini Lasswell <gazally@runbox.com>
Cc: 31660@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31660: 26.1.50; EIEIO manual's Quick Start example makes Emacs unusable
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 20:23:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t7wafb0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wovl3r4u.fsf@runbox.com> (Gemini Lasswell's message of "Wed, 30 May 2018 12:00:49 -0700")

Gemini Lasswell <gazally@runbox.com> writes:

> Definitely the name of the class in the examples in the manual should be
> changed, so that the examples work.

Yeah.

> Maybe it would also be a good idea for defclass to signal an error or
> at least give a warning message if it is asked to define a class with
> the same name as an existing function unless that function is from a
> previous class definition.

A warning would be okay I think.  An error is too much: if you were
developing a library and decided to change a function into a class, then
you wouldn't be able to reload the new version without restarting Emacs.






  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-03  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-30 19:00 bug#31660: 26.1.50; EIEIO manual's Quick Start example makes Emacs unusable Gemini Lasswell
2018-06-03  0:23 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-11-22 22:01   ` Gemini Lasswell
2019-04-09 23:10     ` Noam Postavsky

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