Constantine Vetoshev  <see.my.signature@for.my.e-mail.address> wrote:
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| I'm trying to use EQL specialization to generic functions...
...
| (defmethod mt ((s (eql 'hello)))
|   (format t "hello~%"))
| 
| When running this code from within the MTEST package, everything works
| [and]  (MTEST:MT 'HELLO) prints "symbol". I suppose this happens
| because the HELLO in the method is interned within the MTEST package,
| and I'm passing in a HELLO interned in some other package...
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Exactly so.

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| Am I missing something obvious, or expecting unreasonable behavior?
| If the latter, then I probably do not understand the use of EQL
| specializers.
+---------------

Sure you do! It's symbols (and maybe packages) you're having
trouble with.  ;-}  ;-}

Try executing (MTEST:MT 'MTEST::HELLO) and see what you get,
then think about the results...


-Rob

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