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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-08-05 14:09:08 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-08-05 14:09:08 -0700
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Merge from origin/emacs-25
9ba51ed Document buffer-swap-text+save-excursion interaction 452aa94 Fix eieio vs cl-generic incompatibilities found in Rudel (bug... 248d5dd Include cl-generic in package--builtin-versions (bug#22817) 8f5a8b6 Improve timing in `tramp-test29-environment-variables' 05ba7a0 Add test for handling environment variables in Tramp e393d4f * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (describe-package-1) (package-st... 5e38887 ; * lisp/net/tramp.el: Fix 2010-10-04 comment typo. (Bug#23913) 90f2169 ; Spelling fixes 069fc05 Improve documentation of search functions 0a0144a Delete environment variables in Tramp when needed f624671 Add "New in Emacs 25" section to the FAQ 658daf9 Fix 'vertical-motion' in non-interactive sessions 686b520 Fix memory leak in imagemagick-types 4069b71 Update ELisp manual to match 'string-collate-equalp' doc string 1b2d6a6 Clarify docstring of find-feature-regexp aac62a6 Add details to cl-lib defining macros' docstrings d6aa4da Clarify doc string of 'save-buffer' 03bcf11 Un-confuse doc string of 'string-collate-equalp' c53135b Clarify documentation of 'mouse-on-link-p' # Conflicts: # lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-core.el
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diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el
index d5612f4eb13..61186e1a881 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el
@@ -86,6 +86,11 @@
;;; Code:
+;; The autoloads.el mechanism which adds package--builtin-versions
+;; maintenance to loaddefs.el doesn't work for preloaded packages (such
+;; as this one), so we have to do it by hand!
+(push (purecopy '(cl-generic 1 0)) package--builtin-versions)
+
;; Note: For generic functions that dispatch on several arguments (i.e. those
;; which use the multiple-dispatch feature), we always use the same "tagcodes"
;; and the same set of arguments on which to dispatch. This works, but is
@@ -697,6 +702,15 @@ FUN is the function that should be called when METHOD calls
(setq fun (cl-generic-call-method generic method fun)))
fun)))))
+(defun cl-generic-apply (generic args)
+ "Like `apply' but takes a cl-generic object rather than a function."
+ ;; Handy in cl-no-applicable-method, for example.
+ ;; In Common Lisp, generic-function objects are funcallable. Ideally
+ ;; we'd want the same in Elisp, but it would either require using a very
+ ;; different (and less efficient) representation of cl--generic objects,
+ ;; or non-trivial changes in the general infrastructure (compiler and such).
+ (apply (cl--generic-name generic) args))
+
(defun cl--generic-arg-specializer (method dispatch-arg)
(or (if (integerp dispatch-arg)
(nth dispatch-arg