bug#22336: 25.0.50; cl-generic.el features are not documented in ELisp manual

[Eli Zaretskii]

Ping!  Would someone please volunteer to write some documentation of
these?

> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 11:06:52 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> 
> It looks like the new features, implemented by cl-generic.el and used
> quite a lot in our sources, are not documented in any manual.  Their doc
> strings are impenetrable to anyone who isn't already familiar with CLOS
> multiple-dispatch generics, as they use terminology ("specializers",
> "generalizers", "dispatch", etc.) not explained anywhere.  NEWS has
> this to say about them:
> 
>   ** cl-generic.el provides CLOS-style multiple-dispatch generic functions.
> 
> That's the entire text of the entry.  It diesn't even mention the 2
> entry points, 'cl-defgeneric' and 'cl-defmethod'.
> 
> The generics should be prominently documented either in the ELisp
> manual.  Emacs 25.1 should have them documented, due to their wide usage
> in the core packages and elsewhere.
> 
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.281 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2016-01-08 built on HOME-C4E4A596F7
> Repository revision: 1a6b0846b5fbf08aa4288ae9e47c59cfca30459f
> Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> Configured using:
>  'configure --prefix=/d/usr --enable-checking=yes,glyphs --with-wide-int
>  --with-modules 'CFLAGS=-O0 -gdwarf-4 -g3''
> 
> Configured features:
> XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB
> TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS MODULES
> 
> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: ENU
>   locale-coding-system: cp1255
> 
> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
> 
> Minor modes in effect:
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   global-eldoc-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
> 
> Recent messages:
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> 
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
> 
> Features:
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> mml-sec epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
> mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047
> rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase
> cl-lib mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric
> uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp
> disp-table w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image
> regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode
> prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
> mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham
> georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
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> loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay
> sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
> hashtable-print-readable backquote w32notify w32 multi-tty
> make-network-process emacs)
> 
> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 92854 5930)
>  (symbols 56 20660 0)
>  (miscs 48 36 107)
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