Re: "fall-through" generic function args plus &context

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Perhaps fundamental-mode should work, but I intuitively tried (&context
>> (major-mode nil)) and (&context (major-mode t)).
>
> By "should" I meant that it's a bug that neither works.

Right, I got that. I'll open a bug report.

>> Also, so far as I can tell, the correct function signature for the
>> defgeneric should be (&context (major-mode t)), is that correct?
>> At least, that didn't raise any errors.
>
> cl-defgeneric doesn't actually pay attention to the signature you provide.

Heartbreaking!

Thanks,
Eric