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Question concerning methods

Dear CLIMmers,

I'm currently building an application interface with CLIM (1.0 & 1.1 on Lucid
and Allegro). One way to detect whether the execution of some code affects the
representation of interface objects is to provide :after-methods for those
application functions which might affect the interface state. So, it is not
necessary to change the application code itself. I don't know if I made this
clear, so an example would be:

in the application code:

  (defmethod create-new-application-object (arg1 arg2)
    ...)

in the interface code:

  (defmethod create-new-application-object :after (a1 a2)
    ...
    (redisplay-pane ...))

My problem is now, that the interface code should be independent from the
application code (and, of course, vice versa), that is, I don't want to "copy"
the lambda-list of the application code into the after method of the interface
myself. What I have in mind is a macro which dynamically defines the after
method and gets the lambda-list from the generic function:

  (define-after-method-for-generic-function 'create-new-application-object
        ...body...)

Now, I haven't found a legal way to get the lambda-list of a generic
function. In Allegro4.1, it is in the slot "CLOS::PRETTY-ARGLIST", in
Lucid, it is in the slot "CLOS::LAMBDA-LIST" of the generic function
object. 

My question is whether anybody has found a legal (Ansi-Draft-Conforming...)
way to get the lambda-list of a generic function object.

Any hints are welcome,

Oli
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oli@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de
christ@is.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Oliver Christ, Student of Computer Science at the
University of Stuttgart, Germany
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