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Re: generic fcn describe in Rainy Daay
- To: Bob Kirby <kirby@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
- Subject: Re: generic fcn describe in Rainy Daay
- From: Gregor.pa@Xerox.COM
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 90 14:12 PST
- Cc: Greg Anglin <dganglin@watstat.waterloo.edu>, CommonLoops.pa@Xerox.COM
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 90 10:43:46 -0800
From: kirby@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Bob Kirby)
In my version of the CLOS spec published in SIGPLAN (Vol. 23, Sep.
1988, p2-42) , the generic function is called "describe" not
"describe-object". I hope that you intend to follow the published
spec or else promptly publish revisions.
A subsequent X3J13 vote changed this by adding the generic function
DESCRIBE-OBJECT. DESCRIBE is now an ordinary function which simply
defaults its second argument and calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT. For more
information, see page 698 of the second edition of Guy Steele's book.
X3J13 is the final authority on all of these issues. CLOS is not
considered to be a stand-alone standard but rather an integral part
of ANSI Common Lisp.
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