bug#29541: 27.0.50; Use generic function when restoring eieio-persistent, remove validation

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> 1. `object-write' is already a method. That means the writing process
>> can be overridden and customized, but the reading process can't, which
>> removes most of the benefit of being able to override the write. This
>> would allow "matching" methods for writing and reading.
>
> This makes sense, and having a method instead of a function here
> certainly seems cleaner...
>
> Did anybody with a deeper knowledge of the eieio machinery provide any
> feedback?  It's a quite large patch...

There wasn't any feedback here, so I think that you should go ahead and
apply the patch, Eric.  I think it makes sense conceptually, at least.

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