Re: Towards a cleaner build: eieio

[Stefan Monnier]

> Sorry, I meant -- are all these object-print methods supposed to be
> expressed as cl-print-object methods instead?

I think so.

> And if so, can they be rewritten that way now without breaking anything?

I think so too (tho they'll only work that way with Emacs>26, of course).

> Or would that break out-of-tree code that calls object-print?

There's also a risk of that, of course.

> eieio.el has general fallback code for object-print, but does not
> consult the output of cl-print-object for the objects, so I guess that
> might break something?  But...  could we do that, without going all
> recursive?

Right, I don't think we want to try and make object-print fallback to
cl-print-object: not worth the trouble.


        Stefan