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Re: CLOS questions
- To: Patrick Dussud <dussud@lucid.com>
- Subject: Re: CLOS questions
- From: David N Gray <Gray@DSG.csc.ti.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 11:35:51 CST
- Cc: Common-Lisp-Object-System@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU, masinter.pa@Xerox.COM
- In-reply-to: Msg of Tue, 21 Feb 89 10:43:04 PST from Patrick Dussud <dussud@lucid.com>
- Sender: GRAY@Kelvin.csc.ti.com
> I'm a little confused by the way that SLOT-BOUNDP [p. 2-75],
> SLOT-EXISTS-P [p. 2-76], and SLOT-MAKUNBOUND [p. 2-77] are specified as
> generic functions with a primary method on class STANDARD-OBJECT which
> just invokes a SLOT-...-USING-CLASS generic function. Do these really
> need to be generic at both levels? According to the specification,
> SLOT-BOUNDP, for example, should be implemented as ...
> Note that the latter parallels the way that SLOT-VALUE is specified.
>
> I think we said that was a bug. They all should be functions like slot-value.
Fine, but then shouldn't there be a cleanup proposal to correct this? I
don't think I've seen one.