[slime-devel] Re: when did definterface / defimplementation start making defuns instead of defmethods and why

[Marco Baringer]

Gary King <gwking at metabang.com> writes:

> Maybe that's too long a subject but it does say it all.
>
> When did definterface / defimplementation start making defuns instead
> of defmethods and why?

Aug 09, the changelog reads:

	* swank-backend.lisp (definterface): Drop that incredibly
	unportable CLOS stuff. Use plists and plain functions instead.
	Update backends accordingly.

The reason being that the defgeneric+defmethod stuff never really
worked (morked 95% of the time and caused obscure and hard-to-debug
errors 5% of the time).

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