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remote environments
- To: cl-compiler@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
- Subject: remote environments
- From: Kim A. Barrett <IIM@ECLA.USC.EDU>
- Date: Tue 28 Feb 89 13:41:28-PST
- Cc: iim@ECLA.USC.EDU
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 18:38:01 CST
> From: David N Gray <Gray@DSG.csc.ti.com>
>
> DEFGENERIC
> The attributes of the generic function that affect DEFMETHOD will be
> recorded for use by definitions of methods for that generic function later
> in the file. This includes the lambda-list and method class. It is
> implementation-dependent whether this is actually put in the form of a
> generic function object and whether other operations on that generic
> function are possible at compile-time.
It may be desirable to require that the generic-function-class and the
method-class be instantiable, so that compile-time discrimination on those can
be done. Otherwise, there is a fair amount of generality specified in the MOP
which becomes pretty pointless.
kab
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