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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 22336@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22336: 25.0.50; cl-generic.el features are not documented in ELisp manual
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:03:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy4bf374u.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A3B22C.80902@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:02:36 +0300")

> (cl-defgeneric foo (a)
>   (:method ((s string)) "stringy!")
>   (:method ((a array)) :four)
>   10)

I implemented this :method thingy simply because CLOS allows it, but I'm
not sure it's worth documenting.

> But the docstrings don't mention any of the possible values of TYPE (except
> (eql ...)), not just "plain old" ones. So I'm not clear on what exactly you
> consider an omission here. cl-defmethod docstring should probably enumerate
> the possible types (aside from the mentioned ones, TYPE can be (head ...)
> or a name of cl-struct, like the commentary says).

Actually, the only "builtin" specializer is t (the generic one).
All other ones are defined via cl-generic-define-generalizer, and we
should improve cl-defmethod's docstring so that it automatically
mentions all the specializers that happen to be currently defined
(i.e. in a dynamic way, just like pcase's docstring dynamically lists
the patterns currently defined via pcase-defmacro).


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-24  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-09  9:06 bug#22336: 25.0.50; cl-generic.el features are not documented in ELisp manual Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-09 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-16  8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22 21:17   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23  5:29     ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23  6:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23  8:20         ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23 12:51           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 17:02             ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23 17:21               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-24  0:45                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-24  0:48                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-24  5:03               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-01-24 14:34                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-24 23:00                   ` Stefan Monnier

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