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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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>
Cc: 31660 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31660: 26.1.50; EIEIO manual's Quick Start example makes Emacs unusable
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 20:23:31 -0400

Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com> writes:

> Definitely the name of the class in the examples in the manual should be
> changed, so that the examples work.

Yeah.

> Maybe it would also be a good idea for defclass to signal an error or
> at least give a warning message if it is asked to define a class with
> the same name as an existing function unless that function is from a
> previous class definition.

A warning would be okay I think.  An error is too much: if you were
developing a library and decided to change a function into a class, then
you wouldn't be able to reload the new version without restarting Emacs.
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