Re: specialize method based on array element type

Subject: Re: specialize method based on array element type
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:29:20 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3224773769758527@naggum.net>

* John DeSoi
| Is is possible to specialize a defmethod parameter based on the
| array-element-type?

  That does not appear to be the case, as the specialized arrays are not
  subclasses of the array class.  You can find whether the implemenentation
  has an extension by comparing the value of class-of of your vectors:

(class-of (make-array 4 :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8)))

  I am not sure whether the return value would have to be vector or could
  be a subclass of vector.  Allegro CL 6.1, Lispworks 4.120, CLISP 2.27 all
  return vector, while CMUCL 3.0.8/18c+/build 3030/whatever has a
  specialized class.

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