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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el')
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diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el index e5bab8dba99..4f263c6bb8d 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el @@ -671,6 +671,15 @@ 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 |