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Re: no-applicable-method

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 10:28
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    Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:05 EDT
    From: Thomas Kirk <tk@HUNNY.research.att.com>

	From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)

	However, this won't work if you're trying to do this to generic functions
	that you don't define yourself, since you can't override their metaclasses.

    this will work fine. assuming that you can get at the generic functions,
    just change the class of the generic function object, like so:

Sorry, this isn't permitted.  According to p.197 of "The Art of the
Metaobject Protocol", third paragraph, "the class of a generic function
metaobject may not be changed...".

                                                barmar
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