From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to save custom variable programmatically? Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:30:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87blg5e9re.fsf@web.de> <87o8k5b7oq.fsf@web.de> <87h7pwgbg1.fsf@web.de> <87sg982b2i.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32108"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:IkhDVqaqN4XzSUYvScPZbRWPfUg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 22:31:05 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kf8Z5-0008Hh-S7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:31:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42086 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kf8Z4-0000oV-Sj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:31:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kf8YR-0000o5-Vh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:30:24 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:43488 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kf8YP-0005ei-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:30:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kf8YL-0007XI-3z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:30:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/17 16:07:39 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125313 Archived-At: >> I remember from Common Lisp about `defstruc' and more than that I did >> not use. But I remember `defstruct' preparing various methods >> (probably methods) automatically. > For the sake of completeness: In Emacs Lisp we also have structs via > `cl-defstruct'. These are not part of EIEIO (though EIEIO knows how to > handle them). I think you mean Emacs's generic functions know how to handle them. EIEIO's old generic functions didn't, and the rest of EIEIO is specific to `defclass`. Stefan