Generic Function Invocation ​

There is a detailed and customizable protocol involved in the process of invoking a generic function — i.e., in the process of deciding which of the generic function’s methods are applicable to the current arguments, and which one of those to apply. Here is a summary diagram of the generic functions involved.

apply-generic (generic)

  • no-method (generic)

  • compute-applicable-methods (generic)

  • sort-applicable-methods (generic)

    • method-more-specific? (generic)

  • apply-methods (generic)

  • no-applicable-method

We do not yet have full documentation for these. Please refer to the code (oop/goops.scm) for details.