[closer-devel] C2MOP and class-prototype

[Pascal Costanza]

On 22 Aug 2007, at 08:51, Vyacheslav Akhmechet wrote:

> On 8/22/07, Pascal Costanza <pc at p-cos.net> wrote:
>> Before I can make any changes in Closer to MOP here, I would first
>> have to check whether the other Common Lisp implementations could
>> live with such changes as well. My gut feeling tells me that there
>> may be problems here.
> If it helps I ran (class-prototype (find-class 'string)) on a number
> of implementations available to me:
> CLISP: ""
> CMUCL: ""
> SBCL: 42
> ACL Express: Error
> LispWorks: Error
> OpenMCL: Error
>
>> Why don't you just define your own class-prototype function for your
>> own uses? Portable programs and third-party libraries cannot rely on
>> specified behavior here anyway...
> I can do that. I was thrown off by the fact that CLISP, CMUCL, (and
> partially SBCL) returned correct results. I guess AMOP can be (and is)
> interpreted differently when it comes to this.

This doesn't have anything to do with how AMOP is interpreted - it's  
simply not specified.

> P.S. Apologies for the private e-mail. I really should have sent this
> through GNUS because GMail keeps doing this to me.

No problem.


Pascal

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