[cedet-semantic] Re: how to override semantic-tag-abstract

[DaveS <da...@te...>]

"Eric M. Ludlam" <er...@si...> wrote:

>>>> DaveS <da...@te...> 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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DS