From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Teodor Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: 19767@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19767: 25.0.50; cl-defgeneric docs
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 10:32:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmw4t8zq6.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d25pyifw.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Teodor Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 04 Feb 2015 07:22:59 -0500")
> I see lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el was added recently, and that's great.
> But the CL manual hasn't been updated, I think?
Indeed, that's the main missing part of cl-generic right now.
> I could try to help here, but I haven't used this facility before so I
> need some pointers.
cl-generic tries to implement generic function part of CLOS (CLOS
is the set of object-oriented features of Common-Lisp, and it includes
the definition of objects&classes as well as the definition of methods
which use the "generic function" approach). I tried to follow CLOS
pretty closely for all the things where CLOS seemed sane (i.e. that
excludes method-combinations).
So there's existing docs ain the form of the "Common Lisp Hyperspec",
such as http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/07_fb.htm
but the copyright status of this is kind of murky (for example, the GCL
doc includes it, but Debian took it out from its gcl-doc package because
of this legal uncertainty), so we can't just use that, sadly.
Stefan
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2015-02-04 12:22 bug#19767: 25.0.50; cl-defgeneric docs Teodor Zlatanov
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