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Re: method combination objects



    Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89  14:17:38 EDT
    From: David N Gray <Gray@DSG.csc.ti.com>

    > 89-003 is so full of errors that I don't generally find it useful to
    > comment on it. 

    Yes, but then what _are_ we going to do with it?  :-)

    >	...   However, the macro expansion of DEFGENERIC has to have
    > some way to convert the :METHOD-COMBINATION option from a list into
    > an object of type METHOD-COMBINATION.  I don't see anything wrong
    > with the writeup on 89-003 p.3-61, unless maybe it needs an environment
    > argument, so I don't think it's a mistake.

    Sounds then like it should be MAKE-METHOD-COMBINATION instead of
    FIND-METHOD-COMBINATION.

I think the idea was that since it doesn't necessarily cons a fresh object
every time you call it, it should be named like the other FIND- functions.