Re: with-slots usage question

>>>>> "Nikodemus" == Nikodemus Siivola <[email protected]> writes:

    Nikodemus> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:00:25PM +0100, Tim Moore wrote:
    >> >regular function by that name?  The reason I've been prepending the
    >> >base-class name to my accessor functions is that I've been worried
    >> >about defining functions like name, size, length, etc.

    >> That's what packages are for :)

    Nikodemus> Well, yes, Except that almost every package uses the
    Nikodemus> COMMON-LISP package, so you still lose if you'd like
    Nikodemus> accessors called LENGTH, STRING, etc.

I feel awfully stupid asking this, but....  Can't you just shadow
LENGTH and STRING in your package if you want to override them?

So I can make a generic function for LENGTH that has as its default
method (for type T) COMMON-LISP:LENGTH, and put whatever other methods
I want for it.  Yes?

R