Idle question about S7

I am trying out S7.

Just curious: Does anyone know why the developers chose to use
"method(generic, signature) <- value"

to implement S7 methods rather than

"new_method(generic, signature, value)" ,
 -- or even "new_method(generic, signature, FUN)" --

which would be consistent with new_class, new_generic, etc. ?

Yes, I know it's easy enough to make such a change, especially just
for my own use, but maybe there are good reasons not to.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Bert



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