From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Better help support for EIEIO classes and methods Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:16:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877gmpz9mt.fsf@engster.org> <87txprhq5g.fsf@engster.org> <87pq0eh2u0.fsf@engster.org> <87lib1h0t5.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1360178201 19427 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2013 19:16:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 19:16:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 06 20:17:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1U3AUJ-0003cL-Ih for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:16:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3AU0-0007wb-Rf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:16:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3ATw-0007wJ-Vl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:16:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3ATv-0000Hi-BG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:16:32 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:35088) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3ATv-0000Hd-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:16:31 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZnt/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYoCws0EhQYDYhCBsEtjWGDKQOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZnt/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYoCws0EhQYDYhCBsEtjWGDKQOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="614235" Original-Received: from 69-165-153-237.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.153.237]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 06 Feb 2013 14:16:30 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 20FBA592BB; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:16:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87lib1h0t5.fsf@engster.org> (David Engster's message of "Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:19:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:156840 Archived-At: > But there's usually more than one implementation for a method, and the > link will just point to the one which was first defined. Can we hope that the first definition is usually a defgeneric rather than a defmethod? If not, indeed, it might be better to remove the link (which you should be able to do from the hook I suggested). Stefan