Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

>>>> How can I accede to the initarg of an eieio class?
>>> What do you mean exactly by that and why do you need that?
>> [description of your code]
>> This need adjustments but I hope you get the idea.
>
> Sadly, this describes your code (with reference to unexplained things
> like "the get-or-create of the object"), so no I don't understand what
> you're doing at all, and I don't know what those values are
> meant to hold, so I don't know what you mean to do.
>
> E.g. why do you do
>
>     (oref-default 'moirai-dired-side :display-alist)
>
> instead of
>
>     (oref-default 'moirai-dired-side 'display-alist)
>
> ?

because it don't work.

however

    (oref-default 'moirai-dired-side display-alist)

does work. Im confused.


> Also, why do you need to do (oref-default 'moirai-dired-side
> :display-alist), what do you expect it to return?

The default value inherited by some of the objects.

> If you expect it to return the ((moirai-dired-p) ...)
> you specified in the `defclass`, then why not do:
>
>     (defvar foo-bar '((moirai-dired-p) ...))
>
> so you can get this value without having to ask the class?

Is that terrible to ask to the class ?

I attached an archive of the files incriminated; it is short,
a superclass defined in moirai-core.el and a class defined in
a temp file named moirai-eieio.el if ever that can help.