From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Generic functions: Specializers like `or' or `memq'?
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2021 22:34:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh7csbqh6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvmtmkbtvq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
> This is not standard CLOS parlance, because CLOS does not include
> a mechanism to define new kinds of specializers: you can dispatch on
> (eql <VAL>) and you can dispatch on types and that's that (tho IIRC, you
> can actually extend it via the MOP, potentially with the help of some
> details of your Common-Lisp implementation).
BTW, I took the term "generalizer" from the following article (from
which I drew a fair bit of inspiration when designing `cl-generic.el`):
Generalizers: New metaobjects for generalized dispatch
http://research.gold.ac.uk/9924/1/els-specializers.pdf
-- Stefan
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2021-11-03 17:17 Generic functions: Specializers like `or' or `memq'? Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-03 18:21 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-11-03 21:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-03 21:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-11-03 23:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-03 23:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-04 0:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-04 1:31 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-04 2:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-11-04 4:01 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-06 22:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-06 23:36 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-07 1:48 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-21 19:43 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-23 8:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2021-11-04 17:31 Eric Abrahamsen
2021-11-05 21:17 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-05 21:36 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-06 23:29 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-06 23:52 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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