Re: with-slots usage question

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:15:37PM -0600, Robert P. Goldman wrote:

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

"Yes, but I don't want to."

> 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?

This I had not actually thought of. 

I like the idea in essence, but have the feeling that this is asking 
for trouble.

In the very least, STRING is also a type specifier, so the amount of
hair is greater then just shadow + defgeneric. (Applies to VECTOR,
ARRAY, etc. as well.)

Fortune favors the bold, though, so I've adopted this in Linedit in
spirit of experimentation. Upsides of tiny codebase and utterly
non-critical application. ;)

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus

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