Re: EIEIO and CL

[Chong Yidong]

"Eric M. Ludlam" <address@hidden> writes:

> The defclass operation in EIEIO is a macro that calls out to a helper
> function.  This is because I have found that I'm just not that good at
> writing macros.  I would guess that if the entirety of eieio-defclass
> were turned into a macro, then the whole eval thing you quoted above
> would become a compile time requirement only.

Yes, that would probably work.

> Alternately, it would be cool if typep, or something similar was a part
> of Emacs core.  Wouldn't the widget/custom setup like that?

It's feasible to move typep into core, but deftype involves a layer of
CL-implementation gunk that would need to be cleaned up first; not
feasible for 23.2, I think.