Class Method

Class Method constitutes part of Muq's support for the Muq Object System model of object-oriented computation. MOS methods are not compiled functions (as they are in many other models of object-oriented computation): They are data objects which contain a compiled function, along with information used by the genericFunction ("message-passing") machinery to decide when and how to invoke that compiled function.

Class Method adds the following properties to those of Class Index:

$S.qualifier:         NIL, :before :after :around (for std method combination).
$S.methodFunction:   Compiled function implementing method.
$S.genericFunction:  Compiled-function for generic to which method belongs.
$S.lambdaList:       Description of args for compiledFn.
$S.requiredArgs:     Count of required arguments for compiledFn.

Note: For convenience, the $S properties are also available in the public (default) propdir.

Class Method instances also contain an array of slots, one for each required argument: See section getMethodSlot, See section setMethodSlot.

See section makeMethod.

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