[slime-devel] Re: HACKING

[Luke Gorrie]

Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> I didn't even know about NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD :-).  But, I would
> expect that the default implementation is added as method for the
> generic function itself and not to NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD.

The idea of NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD was t'be sure that a "real"
definition would override the default one. Could we do this using
normal methods? (I'm not wise in the ways of CLOS.)

> We could invent a macro like DEFSLIMEGENERIC, or something with a
> shorter name.  Probably not a bad idea, because some of the generic
> functions are called in swank.lisp and others by Emacs directly.

Or how about:

  (slimefun foo)
  (defgeneric foo ....)

  (slimefun bar)
  (defun bar  ....)