GNU bug report logs - #38374
26.3; The info doc of eieio-class-name is outdated and its value looks incorrect

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:33:43 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Merged with 38365

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26.3; The info doc of eieio-class-name is outdated and its value
 looks incorrect
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 01:08:53 +0800

I sent this report two days ago, but it seems it is not received
because debbugs.gnu.org was down.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56 <at> gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 11:11 PM
Subject: 26.3; The info doc of eieio-class-name is outdated and its
value looks incorrect
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>


(info "(eieio) Predicates") mentions

 -- Function: eieio-class-name class
     Return a string of the form ‘#<class myclassname>’ which should
     look similar to other Lisp objects like buffers and processes.
     Printing a class results only in a symbol.

but it is not right, the value is not string at all, it's a symbol

  (defclass my-class () ())
  ;; => my-class

  (eieio-class-name 'my-class)
  ;; => my-class

  (type-of (eieio-class-name 'my-class))
  ;; => symbol

The git master produced the same result as Emacs 26.3. I notice Emacs
24.3's class-name produces the expected result and the function is
replaced by eieio-class-name since 24.4

   (define-obsolete-function-alias 'class-name #'eieio-class-name "24.4")

however, these two functions are different. It seems eieio-class-name
contains a bug, the name suggests its value is a string, but it
returns a symbol.
Merged 38365 38374. Request was from Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 25 Nov 2019 23:06:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Added tag(s) fixed. Request was from Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:14:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug marked as fixed in version 27.1, send any further explanations to 38365 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56 <at> gmail.com> Request was from Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:14:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 26 Dec 2019 12:24:06 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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