Re: Generalizing find-definition

[Dmitry Gutov]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> This package does not force anyone to know EIEIO; the package API is all
> plain functions.

The API mandates that `xref-backend-function' returns an instance of a
class derived from xref-backend-class.  How would you implement the
find-func backend without changing xref?

> But people can use the classes if they want to; I intend to in ada-mode.

I don't see why this can't happen with a plain-function implementation.