Re: with-slots usage question

Marco Baringer <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:23:02 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clump
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Robert P. Goldman" <[email protected]> writes:

> 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?

yes, until you want to do that to a function with optional, keyword or
rest args.

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-Marco
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