Re: Trouble understanding define (!)

[Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>]

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> So once the usages of defined? are removed from define-generic,
> define-accessor and define-method, would the usage be:
> 
> - define-generic and define-accessor unconditionally overwrite any
>   previous definition (a la define)
> 
> - define-method raises an error if its first arg is not a generic
>   function
> 
> ?

Yes.  But, we'll be able to supply initialization arguments (#:default
and #:setter) to define-generic and define-accessor so that we can
give a default method easily at creation of the generic.