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From: barmar@leander.think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: LISP compiler? (really future of MACL)
Message-ID: <31689@news.Think.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 89 04:46:39 GMT
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In article <616@pyuxf.UUCP> asg@pyuxf.UUCP (alan geller) writes:
>2) Serious rumor has it that MACL 2.0 will support CLOS directly, rather than
>	by using a generic implementation like PCL.  I applaud this, but I
>	have a couple of requests along this line:  please make sure that
>	print and describe are implemented as generic functions!

The current state of things in X3J13 specifies that DESCRIBE and PRINT call
the generic functions DESCRIBE-OBJECT and PRINT-OBJECT.  So, it's not CLOS
unless they do this.
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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