GNU bug report logs - #31660
26.1.50; EIEIO manual's Quick Start example makes Emacs unusable

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>

Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 19:02:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed, fixed

Merged with 32595

Found in version 26.1.50

Fixed in version 26.2

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #18 received at 31660 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>
Cc: 31660 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31660: 26.1.50;
 EIEIO manual's Quick Start example makes Emacs unusable
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 19:10:21 -0400

tags 31660 fixed
close 31660 26.2
quit

Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com> writes:
>
> Here's a patch to eieio.texi which makes the examples work, and adds a
> suggestion to check for name conflicts to the description of 'defclass':
  
> +When defining a class, @eieio{} overwrites any preexisting variable or
> +function bindings for the symbol @var{class-name}, which may lead to
> +undesired consequences.  Before naming a new class, you should check
> +for name conflicts.

I added another sentence here about using package prefixes, and pushed
to emacs-26.

8d2f1df51a 2019-04-09T18:53:43-04:00 "Address name conflicts in EIEIO documentation (bug#31660)"
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 127 days ago.

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