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So: have there been changes to eieio (specifically, cl-defmethod) in Emacs 27 that break previous code?
It's not a change in eieio or cl-defmethod directly; what's changed is the handling of the &key symbol in cl-def* macros.
(cl-defmethod initialize-instance :after ((sc simple-class) &key))
In Emacs 26 and earlier this produces a function which ...
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The short answer is no.
Once you declare a class, Emacs will define a function with the name of that class as a creation function, thereby replacing your old function definition. In Emacs, eieio.el has a macro for defclass that goes like so:
(defmacro defclass (name superclasses slots &rest options-and-doc)
;; A lot of stuff here...
;; Non-...
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While waiting for a better answer, I wrote a with-slots macro that seems to work with defstruct instances:
(defmacro my-with-slots (class-name slots obj &rest body)
"Bind slot names SLOTS in an instance OBJ of class CLASS-NAME, and execute BODY."
(declare (indent 3))
`(cl-symbol-macrolet
,(cl-loop for slot in slots
collect `...
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Actually, the cl-defstruct macro does preserve enough info to make such a function possible, but I don't think anyone has written such a beast yet.
The way this info is stored has changed in Emacs-25: now the macro expands to various other things plus a call to cl-struct-define which creates a class object (itself a struct). You can inspect it with C-h o ...
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