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>>> DaveS <davls@...> seems to think that:
>I need to get semantic to recognize a new symbol as a synonym for
>abstract.  The documentation for semantic-tag-abstract says this can be
>done by overriding tag-abstract, but semantic-tag-abstract is a defun so
>I'm not sure how this would work.  

The 'define-overload' macro is a convenience feature that writes a
block of code.  If the code isn't quite right, you can create your
own with 'defun' instead which is true for `semantic-tag-abstract'.

`semantic-tag-abstract' couldn't use the default because it has two
overload symbols.  The current one, and a backwards compatible one.

>I'm guessing that define-mode-overload-implementation will not work.

It should.

>While we're on the topic of overloads, what's the correct way to call
>the default version of a function within the overloaded function.  Right
>now I'm just calling <function>-default, but I wondered if there was a
>way that didn't depend solely on a naming convention.

That is the right way to do it.

Good Luck
Eric

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"Eric M. Ludlam" <eric@...> wrote:

>>>> DaveS <davls@...> seems to think that:
>>I need to get semantic to recognize a new symbol as a synonym for
>>abstract.  The documentation for semantic-tag-abstract says this can be
>>done by overriding tag-abstract, but semantic-tag-abstract is a defun so
>>I'm not sure how this would work.  
>
> The 'define-overload' macro is a convenience feature that writes a
> block of code.  If the code isn't quite right, you can create your
> own with 'defun' instead which is true for `semantic-tag-abstract'.
>
> `semantic-tag-abstract' couldn't use the default because it has two
> overload symbols.  The current one, and a backwards compatible one.
>

Ahhh. I see it now.  Looking at the code for semantic-tag-abstract,
things are becoming clear.  I had associated some mystical voodoo to
define-overload and expected that it had to be used to setup overloads.

Thanx for the help.

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