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Re: cl-generic
From: |
Pierre Lorenzon |
Subject: |
Re: cl-generic |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:58:41 +0200 (CEST) |
Hi Stefan
thanks for your answer.
From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: cl-generic
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 19:33:03 -0400
>> With the old functions I was able to give a byte compile form
>> as method body but it does not seem to be possibl with
>> cl-defmethod. One might always define a method :
>
> Of course eieio-defmethod and eieio--defmethod are still available, as
> backward compatibility, and otherwise you can use the new
> cl-generic-define-method.
>
> But in any case, such issues should be reported via M-x report-emacs-bug
> rather than in gnu.emacs.help.
For me it was in fact not really a bug but much more an
information about what effect will really have the
byte-compile command.
>
>> (cl-defmethod mymethod .... and then execute (byte-compile
>> 'mymethod) but I wonder if doing that the method body is really
>> byte compiled.
>
> No, that won't byte compile the method: (byte-compile 'mymethod) will
> only try to compile `mymethod' which is a generic function (which
> dispatches to the various possible methods) and is already
> byte-compiled anyway (I could imagine extending `byte-compile' so that
> it understands the internal structure of generic functions and tries to
> byte-compile all the methods when applied to a generic function, but
> currently it doesn't do that).
OK !
>
> You'd have to use
>
> (eval (byte-compile '(cl-defmethod mymethod ....)))
I'll do that !
Thanks Again
>
> to byte-compile this particular method.
>
>
> Stefan