"Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> It seems that GCL is significantly broken in that defmethod does not work
> with built-in types as classes.
>
> that is
>
> (defmethod foo ((x double-float)(n fixnum)) .... )
>
> is unacceptable.
Should this really work? I once wanted something like that myself and was
told that this was not covered by the standard which requires that only
classes (not types) or eql-specializers must be used at that point.
Nicolas