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bug#52317: 29.0.50; Unintelligible sentence in EIEIO info


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#52317: 29.0.50; Unintelligible sentence in EIEIO info
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 22:02:40 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

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.)

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