[Openmcl-devel] type specifier '(simple-vector n) in defmethod

[Tim Bradshaw]

On 5 Jan 2024, at 21:02, Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:
> 
> And there is nothing that cannot be added with a library.  CL is infinitely malleable.  That's the *whole point*.  It's the thing that makes CL superior to other languages.

Exactly so.  If you want x, don't sit aroind complaining that CL doesn't have x: write a thing that does x.  That is, quite literally, how CLOS arrived in Common Lisp, as anyone who can remember fetching and building PCL releases from Xerox knows.  If CLOS can arrive as a library, anything can.