master 4f365ee: * lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el: Add reference to inspiration

[Stefan Monnier]

branch: master
commit 4f365eec10ca110016ac5aef7f8952105f55fe7c
Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Commit: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>

    * lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el: Add reference to inspiration
---
 lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el
index 2c29241..3f75cf9 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el
@@ -86,6 +86,14 @@
 
 ;;; Code:
 
+;; We provide a mechanism to define new specializers.
+;; Related work can be found in:
+;; - http://www.p-cos.net/documents/filtered-dispatch.pdf
+;; - Generalizers: New metaobjects for generalized dispatch
+;;   http://research.gold.ac.uk/9924/1/els-specializers.pdf
+;; This second one is closely related to what we do here (and that's
+;; the name "generalizer" comes from).
+
 ;; The autoloads.el mechanism which adds package--builtin-versions
 ;; maintenance to loaddefs.el doesn't work for preloaded packages (such
 ;; as this one), so we have to do it by hand!