From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: type checking for arbitrary lisp objects
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:16:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsipi8za1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46015.14104.213066.21320@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:32:15 -0500")
> I begin to understand how this is supposed to work. Is it also
> possible to define more complex types recursively, similar to `list'
> and `repeat' used by defcustom's :type keyword? My complete
> knowledge about these cl functions is based on their info page,
> which is somewhat brief.
If you do a search for "clhs deftype" on your favorite search engine
you should find the Common Lisp doc for that macro. The cl-lib version
may not be 100% faithful, but it's usually pretty close,
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-12 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-11 19:10 type checking for arbitrary lisp objects Roland Winkler
2014-04-11 19:12 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-11 19:22 ` Roland Winkler
2014-04-11 20:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-12 3:32 ` Roland Winkler
2014-04-12 13:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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