Re: [Sbcl-help] suppressing gf style warning selectively?

[Nicolas N. <ne...@ma...>]

Rudi Schlatte <ru...@co...> writes:

> On 23.12.2007, at 05:20, Nicolas Neuss wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I sometimes like to use DEFMETHOD as replacement for DEFUN + type
>> declarations (i.e., even if there is no broader use of that function  in
>> which case a DEFGENERIC would make sense).  In these cases, the style
>> warning "implicitly creating new generic function" is a nuisance.   Is it
>> possible to switch off this warning selectively?
>
> In addition to all the points in Bill's reply, there's also
>
> (defgeneric foo (x) (:method ((x fixnum)) x))

Yes, I know, but this is still too clumsy to write for my taste.

(BTW, the use of a type specifier like FIXNUM -which is not guaranteed to
be a class- is non-standard.)

Merry christmas,
Nicolas

> Since that form defines the generic function and a method, there are  no
> warnings.
>
> Rudi
>
>

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