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From: andreasg@ganglion.colorado.edu (Andreas Girgensohn)
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Subject: describe and describe-object
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Which of the two functions is supposed to be a generic function?  X3J13
88-002R doesn't mention describe-object at all.  In Symbolics CLOS, describe
is a regular function that calls describe-object for CLOS objects.  Has there
been a change in the standard or does the Symbolics implementation violate the
standard?

Andreas Girgensohn
andreasg@cs.colorado.edu