[elephant-devel] Reason for

[Alex Mizrahi]

> I also made a change for ccl so we don't inject the class if the dependencies argument was not provided (vs passing it along as a nil argument).  I'll look at the alternate placement.

AMOP spec says that users shouldn't add methods to SHARED-INITIALIZE of 
a metaclass. I think it can be moved to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE  and 
REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as they are allowed, and that would also prevent 
problems with internal updates as these functions are not called on 
update-instance-for-*. (I.e. you can get rid of the check of whether 
direct-superclasses were passed or not in that case.)

So that could be a conservative fix (more like bringing it up to the 
spec) which doesn't change the implementation much.

COMPUTE-PRECEDENCE-LIST sounds like a cleaner way to do it (if we don't 
really care for DIRECT superclasses), but I haven't read AMOP on this 
yet, so it is more like a guess.

> These get ccl to pass all but one test.
> Where are you with getting sbcl to build/pass?  I'm testing with 1.0.56

IIRC both CCL and SBCL were passing all tests but 
CACHING-STYLE-REQUIRED. (Again some MOP part which doesn't work.)

But then I've fixed the test suite itself and got more failures. :)

Can you please check inhibit-rollback (in testconditions) after applying 
my patches? It crashes lisp, as I understand, through corrupting BDB 
state. (Problem was previously hidden because of "ignore-conditions".)