Re: define-method syntax

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

"Lars J. Aas" <address@hidden> writes:

> I find myself writing 
> 
>   (define-method (method-name arg ...) body ...)

This syntax should actually work just fine in current GOOPS.
See the ChangeLog entries for 2000-04-12.

| guile> (goops-version)
| "0.1.7"
| guile> (define-method (frob (hah <number>)) (1+ hah))
| guile> (frob 10)
| 11

> Why was the syntax set to the latter?  Is that how CLOS
> does it or something?

Yes, Lisp's DEFMETHOD and DEFUN keep the name separate.
In DEFMETHOD, one can even have other things between the name
and the argument list.