From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: References: <83h9innmtv.fsf@gnu.org> <831t9iexrw.fsf@gnu.org> <8337tp71q5.fsf@gnu.org> <56A30FCE.4030009@yandex.ru> <83twm46d8y.fsf@gnu.org> <56A337B3.9050802@yandex.ru> <83d1ss5uhz.fsf@gnu.org> <56A3B22C.80902@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453611871 27409 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2016 05:04:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 05:04:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 22336@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 24 06:04:15 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aNCqS-0002Ir-58 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 06:04:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNCqQ-0002n2-Q0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:04:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57413) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNCqN-0002mt-Fq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:04:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNCqI-0003nY-Gk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:04:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44484) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNCqI-0003nU-DE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:04:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aNCqI-0004yp-4a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:04:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 05:04:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 22336 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 22336-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B22336.145361181119103 (code B ref 22336); Sun, 24 Jan 2016 05:04:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22336) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Jan 2016 05:03:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60937 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aNCpn-0004y3-7g for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:34467) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aNCpk-0004xn-2a for 22336@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:03:29 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0A7FgA731xV/zh9oWxcgxCEAoVVwD6CTQQCAoE8PBEBAQEBAQEBgQpBBYNdAQEDAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEBAQEBBAEBAQEeizqFBQeELQWLRGynD4FFI4I7gVsggngBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0A7FgA731xV/zh9oWxcgxCEAoVVwD6CTQQCAoE8PBEBAQEBAQEBgQpBBYNdAQEDAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEBAQEBBAEBAQEeizqFBQeELQWLRGynD4FFI4I7gVsggngBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="190886365" Original-Received: from 108-161-125-56.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([108.161.125.56]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 24 Jan 2016 00:03:22 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id AC46C6632F; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:03:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <56A3B22C.80902@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:02:36 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:111910 Archived-At: > (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