[slime-devel] Re: SWANK-BACKEND:FIND-DEFINITIONS -- return value specification.

Helmut Eller heller@common-lisp.net writes:

Currently, we use the dspec part only for display purposes. It would be good to find a useful application for these dspecs before spending too much time on them.

I've written a FIND-DEFINITION-FOR-THING that tries to find the definition of the data structure behind an object. And I've got to rule out definitions returned from FIND-DEFINITIONS which don't match.

For example:

(find-definitions '(setf car))

may return definitions for a SETF-EXPANDER and for a SETF function definition for CAR.

However,

(find-definition-for-thing #'(setf car))

may only return the SETF function definition.

Objective is to provide a general Find Definition menu option for presentations.

Does this count as useful application?

-T.