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From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>, 52317@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52317: 29.0.50; Unintelligible sentence in EIEIO info
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 22:28:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7bm91xi.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735n6ojdb.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 05 Dec 2021 22:02:40 +0100")

>> Visit (info "(eieio) Generics") .
>> Find the sentence
>>
>>        In CLOS, a generic call also be used to provide an argument list
>>        and dispatch precedence for all the arguments.
>>
>> This sentence is unintelligible AFAICT.
>
> I've now changed it to:
>
> In CLOS, a generic method can also be used to provide an argument list
> and dispatch precedence for all the arguments.  In @eieio{},
> dispatching only occurs for the first argument, so the @var{arglist}
> is not used.

Thanks Lars!  This fixes the issue!

> in Emacs 29.  But the documentation here talks about cl-defgeneric, so
> it's extra confusing.  (The `defgeneric' in eieio-compat.el does behave
> like described, apparently, so it's not totally wrong...  but...  it
> think perhaps the ieieo/cl method stuff needs some editing.)

Possibly.  I'll keep reporting in case I find something else...


Thanks again!
-- 
Marco






      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-05 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-05 20:48 bug#52317: 29.0.50; Unintelligible sentence in EIEIO info Marco Wahl
2021-12-05 21:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-05 21:28   ` Marco Wahl [this message]

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