[slime-devel] Slime support for metaclasses

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:12:11 +0100, Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net> said:
> Delivered-To: slime-devel at common-lisp.net
> 
> * Ian Eslick [2006-01-24 03:39+0100] writes:
> 
> > It's a minor enough change I figured someone who checks in regularly
> > can update this and
> > provide some judgement on whether there are likely to be any problems.
> 
> I committed that change and added the *-using-class functions to
> swank-mop.  It seems to work for CMUCL, SBCL, and CLISP.  For the
> rest, well, it may just work, or we will receive bug reports, or it
> doesn't matter enough so that nobody sends a bug report.

LispWorks's *-using-class methods work with the slot name, not the slot
definition.  I suppose we can finess that in the swank-mop layer.

BTW, what kind of object returns NIL from SLOT-BOUNDP but still has a slot
value and how is a user supposed to access it?

__Martin