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Re: Method Combination Objects
- To: "David A. Moon" <Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
- Subject: Re: Method Combination Objects
- From: kempf%hplabsz@hplabs.HP.COM
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 88 13:57:19 PST
- Cc: common-lisp-object-system@sail.stanford.edu
- In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 27 Jan 88 12:34:00 -0500. <19880127173423.8.MOON@EUPHRATES.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
> Append to the paragraph:
> "A method combination instance is a meta-object that encapsulates
> the method combination type and options specified by the
^^^^
> {\bf :method-combination} option to forms that specify generic
> function options."
I don't think you mean "type" in the sense of Common Lisp type here,
do you? Isn't "role" the correct technical term?
> (describe-method-concisely generic-function method method-combination)
Why is this any different from DESCRIBE? Presumably, a DESCRIBE method
could give the same information for a method object.
jak