Re: [Sbcl-devel] Vicious Metacircles

[Christophe R. <cs...@ca...>]

Gerd Moellmann <ger...@t-...> writes:

> I've just comitted fixes for breaking vicious circles that PCL can
> enter when adding subclasses to classes like STANDARD-METHOD.  There
> was an example on cmucl-help recently.
>
> You have anon CVS access again, or should I send you diffs?

We have anon cvs, thanks. (BTW, I have booted your METAOBJECT diff,
and it seems to work about as well as before.  Now I'm just confused
about the presence of STD-CLASS -- oh, and why INSTANCE isn't on the
superclass list for STANDARD-OBJECT any more... why isn't this
breaking things that expect to have instances as type specifiers?)

I wonder vaguely if it might be worth creating a portable-pcl list
much as there's a portable-clx?  Probably the overhead is too great in
this, though the OpenMCL folks were thinking of looking at PCL for
their clos recently.

Cheers,

Christophe
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