GNU bug report logs - #58563
29.0.50; Generic functions and advertised-calling-convention

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Reported by: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>

Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 10:25:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in versions 29.0.50, 25.3.1

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 58563 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#58563: 29.0.50; Generic functions and advertised-calling-convention
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 12:33:25 +0200

"Basil L. Contovounesios" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army
knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I wonder if cl-defgeneric should be the single source of this function
> property, or whether any cl-defmethod should be able to overload it.
> Thoughts?

I think...  that this belongs in the cl-defgeneric only, and not in the
cl-defmethod.  (Unless there isn't a cl-defgeneric, which is sometimes
the case.)

That is, if a cl-defgeneric has defined a advertised-calling-convention,
it should be an error for the cl-defmethod to define one.

Perhaps.
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