From 4f365eec10ca110016ac5aef7f8952105f55fe7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Monnier Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:20:43 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el: Add reference to inspiration --- lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el index 2c292415cfe..3f75cf9922c 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el @@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ ;;; Code: +;; We provide a mechanism to define new specializers. +;; Related work can be found in: +;; - http://www.p-cos.net/documents/filtered-dispatch.pdf +;; - Generalizers: New metaobjects for generalized dispatch +;; http://research.gold.ac.uk/9924/1/els-specializers.pdf +;; This second one is closely related to what we do here (and that's +;; the name "generalizer" comes from). + ;; 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! -- 2.39.2