Re: [Emacs-diffs] master d895f6c: Fix Edebug specs for 'cl-defmethod' and 'defmethod'

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> -             [ &optional keywordp ]     ; this is key :before etc
>>> -             list                       ; arguments
>>> +             [ &optional keywordp       ; this is key :before etc
>>> +               &optional stringp ]      ; :extra can be followed by a 
>>> string
>> 
>> Actually, there can be any number of non-lists between the function name
>> and the arg list.  So it should probably be more like [ &rest atom ] or
>> something like that.

> By the way, do we want to support methods with zero arguments here? nil is
> an atom, and not a list.

IIRC CLOS does not allow 0-arg methods (and it allows nil as a qualifier),
whereas cl-defmethod uses `listp` to distinguish args from qualifiers,
so it doesn't allow nil as qualifier (tho I suspect it doesn't handle
a 0-arg method "correctly" either).


        Stefan