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8.11.10 Generic Function Invocation
There is a detailed and customizable protocol involved in the process of invoking a generic function — i.e., in the process of deciding which of the generic function’s methods are applicable to the current arguments, and which one of those to apply. Here is a summary diagram of the generic functions involved.
apply-generic (generic)
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no-method(generic) -
compute-applicable-methods(generic) -
sort-applicable-methods(generic)-
method-more-specific?(generic)
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apply-methods(generic)-
apply-method(generic) -
no-next-method(generic)
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no-applicable-method
We do not yet have full documentation for these. Please refer to the code (‘oop/goops.scm’) for details.
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