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From: rodney@huntsai.boeing.com (Rodney Daughtrey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.clos
Subject: Defining SETF :AFTER methods in PCL
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Date: 17 Jan 91 16:18:35 GMT
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Consider the following code:



(defclass foo ()
  ((bar :type string
        :accessor foo-bar)))


(defmethod (setf foo-bar) :after ((self foo) value)
  (format t "~%FOO-BAR is now ~A" value))


(let ((foo-1 (make-instance 'foo)))
  (setf (foo-bar foo-1) "Hello"))



When I evaluate this code, I expected to see

FOO-BAR is now HELLO
"Hello"

but all I got was

"Hello"


What am I doing wrong?  Is there a better way to accomplish this?
I'm using PCL on the Macintosh using Allegro Common LISP 1.3.2.
Thanks!



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