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Re: type-of semantics unclear for records
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: type-of semantics unclear for records |
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Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:10:09 -0400 |
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> Ah, I'm afraid I don't know how type descriptors are supposed to work in
> Emacs.
IIRC from core-Elisp's point of view they exist only here in `type-of`
and are defined as "a record whose field 1 is the corresponding type
name (a symbol)".
> I don't offhand see the concept mentioned in the documentation;
> shouldn't it be?
Indeed, `make-record`s doctring should probably say something about it.
Stefan