Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > We define an accessor defsubst for each of the data it contains.  We
  > > document its meaning.  We define a constructor function, and document
  > > the meaning of each argument.  We manipulate them always through those
  > > functions.  Voilà!
  > > 
  > > The subsctructure is clearly shown and yet changing it later is painless.

  > This is pretty much what I'm doing here.

  > Only a little more complex, because there are multiple data types that 
  > implement the same interface.

Eli, do you think the difference is significant?

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