Re: Purpose of defmethod

From: Kenny Tilton (ktilton_at_nyc.rr.com)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:30:32 GMT

Jeff wrote:
> appears to be a macro that does everything that defun can and more. So
> why shouldn't I just use defmethod /everywhere/ instead of defun?

efficiency

kt 

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