Re: Cleaning up the EIEIO namespace

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> In toplevel form:
>>> eieio.el:168:1:Error: Symbol's function definition is void: 
>>> eieio--class-parent
>> Can you (setq byte-compile-error t debug-on-error t) so as to get
>> a backtrace?
> Did you mean `byte-compile-error-on-warn'? Anyway, I'm afraid I just
> don't get a backtrace with debug-on-error.

No, I meant byte-compile-debug sorry.

>>> I also cannot find a definition for eieio--class-parent, but maybe it's
>>> hidden somewhere?
>> It's defined (as a macro) by the call to (eieio--define-field-accessors
>> class ...)  which is kind of a "mini cl-defstruct".
> I see. Now, I can compile your patched EIEIO with trunk, but using the
> latest pretest gives me the above error. I can fix this by including the
> define-field-accessor macro and its following two calls (for class and
> object) in the 'eval-and-compile' clause.  Not sure if that's the right
> thing to do, though.  Something must have changed in trunk in how this is
> handled?

Let me get back to you on this one, later,


        Stefan