Re: Describe

[moon (David A. Moon)]

> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1992 18:36:06 -0500
> From: bill@cambridge.apple.com (Bill St. Clair)
> 
> >Why is describe not a generic function in MCL 2.01b?  Sonya Keene's 
> >"Object-Oriented Programming in COMMON LISP" says it should be.
> 
> CLtL2, pp. 697-698 says that DESCRIBE is a regular function and
> DESCRIBE-OBJECT is a generic function. MCL 2.0b1 complies with that
> specification.

I believe the Common Lisp specification was changed after Sonya finished her 
book and MCL is more up to date than the book.