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bug#52317: 29.0.50; Unintelligible sentence in EIEIO info
From: |
Marco Wahl |
Subject: |
bug#52317: 29.0.50; Unintelligible sentence in EIEIO info |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Dec 2021 22:28:25 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
>> Visit (info "(eieio) Generics") .
>> Find the sentence
>>
>> In CLOS, a generic call also be used to provide an argument list
>> and dispatch precedence for all the arguments.
>>
>> This sentence is unintelligible AFAICT.
>
> I've now changed it to:
>
> In CLOS, a generic method can also be used to provide an argument list
> and dispatch precedence for all the arguments. In @eieio{},
> dispatching only occurs for the first argument, so the @var{arglist}
> is not used.
Thanks Lars! This fixes the issue!
> in Emacs 29. But the documentation here talks about cl-defgeneric, so
> it's extra confusing. (The `defgeneric' in eieio-compat.el does behave
> like described, apparently, so it's not totally wrong... but... it
> think perhaps the ieieo/cl method stuff needs some editing.)
Possibly. I'll keep reporting in case I find something else...
Thanks again!
--
Marco