Lazy error signaling?

[kab@charon.MIT.EDU (Kim A. Barrett)]

> ... bad practice for the implementation to add obscure system defined methods
> in places that are visible by the programmer. ...

Right.  My suggested possible implementation of (... :required t) is completely
bogus.  I was confused about how our implementation of STANDARD method
combination works (it doesn't use (primary () :required t) at all).

Regarding precomputing of combined methods and METHOD-COMBINATION-ERROR, this
only works if the place doing the precomputing knows how to detect and
gracefully handle a corresponding call to METHOD-COMBINATION-ERROR.  Since we
didn't specify much about the behavior of METHOD-COMBINATION-ERROR, this is
currently impossible in portable code.  Of course, it's not clear that
precomputing methods can be done for any useful purpose without a metaobject
proposal anyway.
					kab