[climacs-devel] forward/backward-object

[Robert Strandh]

Aleksandar Bakic writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Just in case, I'd emphasize that these two generics, whose methods won't be
 > specialized on buffers, should have methods that invoke methods from the buffer
 > protocol if they work on buffers, even if it adds some overhead. Otherwise,
 > they would end up like end-of-line, which only works with one buffer class at
 > the moment.

Correct.

I changed forward-object and backward-object to specialize on
mark-mixin which is an internal symbol in the buffer package, so is
specific to the particular implementation.  

The end-of-line method is also specialized on mark-mixin which should
be OK, right?

-- 
Robert Strandh

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