Re: Generic functions: Specializers like `or' or `memq'?

[Stefan Monnier]

> My earliest confusion began when I decided that if I could find the part
> of the code that runs the `eql' specializer (or do we call it the `eql'
> generalizer?) and then worked back from there, I would be able to make
> sense of everything. But I couldn't even find the bit of code that looks
> like (eql <val> <tag>)! And still can't.

Nah, that would be too easy.
Instead it happens implicitly via a lookup in a hash-table.

I suspect that the code for cl-defstruct specializer might be easier to
understand in this respect.


        Stefan