Re: no describe?

[slh@digitool.com (Steve Hain)]

At 10:39 AM 4/13/95, Ken Tilton wrote:
>Following Keene, I attempted to define a "describe" method for my class. I
>see from the error that "describe" is not a generic function. Is there some
>other method I override to achieve the same end:controlling the appearance
>of raw object descriptions?

Re CLtL2 p. 697-8, DESCRIBE is a function and DESCRIBE-OBJECT is a method,
called by the former and intended to be specialized by users for their
classes. They are implemented as such in MCL.

- Steve Hain

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