[closer-devel] ACL 8.0 generic-function-argument-precedence-order

[Pascal Costanza]

On 14 Sep 2007, at 07:32, Pascal Costanza wrote:

> On 14 Sep 2007, at 05:02, Vyacheslav Akhmechet wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> From what I understand from MOP recommendation
>> generic-function-argument-precedence-order is meant to return only
>> required arguments. Quoting the recommendation, "This value is a list
>> of symbols, a permutation of the required parameters in the lambda
>> list of the generic function." So far I've verified that this is
>> honored in SBCL and LispWorks, but not ACL:
>>
>> (defmethod foo (a b c &rest d) nil)
>> (generic-function-lambda-list #'foo)
>> => (A B C &REST D)
>>
>> Am I misunderstanding the spec? Are there plans to fix this?
>
> I haven't been aware of this incompatibility yet. It should be  
> straightforward to provide a workaround in Closer to MOP, so I will  
> look into this.

There is now a fix for this problem in the Closer to MOP darcs  
repository.


Pascal

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