+;;; a helper function for creating Python-friendly type declarations
+;;; in DEFMETHOD forms
+(defun parameter-specializer-declaration-in-defmethod (parameter specializer)
+ (cond ((and (consp specializer)
+ (eq (car specializer) 'eql))
+ ;; KLUDGE: ANSI, in its wisdom, says that
+ ;; EQL-SPECIALIZER-FORMs in EQL specializers are evaluated at
+ ;; DEFMETHOD expansion time. Thus, although one might think
+ ;; that in
+ ;; (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X PACKAGE)
+ ;; (Y (EQL 12))
+ ;; ..))
+ ;; the PACKAGE and (EQL 12) forms are both parallel type
+ ;; names, they're not, as is made clear when you do
+ ;; (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X PACKAGE)
+ ;; (Y (EQL 'BAR)))
+ ;; ..)
+ ;; where Y needs to be a symbol named "BAR", not some cons
+ ;; made by (CONS 'QUOTE 'BAR). I.e. when the
+ ;; EQL-SPECIALIZER-FORM is (EQL 'X), it requires an argument
+ ;; to be of type (EQL X). It'd be easy to transform one to
+ ;; the other, but it'd be somewhat messier to do so while
+ ;; ensuring that the EQL-SPECIALIZER-FORM is only EVAL'd
+ ;; once. (The new code wouldn't be messy, but it'd require a
+ ;; big transformation of the old code.) So instead we punt.
+ ;; -- WHN 20000610
+ '(ignorable))
+ ((member specializer
+ ;; KLUDGE: For some low-level implementation
+ ;; classes, perhaps because of some problems related
+ ;; to the incomplete integration of PCL into SBCL's
+ ;; type system, some specializer classes can't be
+ ;; declared as argument types. E.g.
+ ;; (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SLOT-OBJECT))
+ ;; (DECLARE (TYPE SLOT-OBJECT X))
+ ;; ..)
+ ;; loses when
+ ;; (DEFSTRUCT BAR A B)
+ ;; (FOO (MAKE-BAR))
+ ;; perhaps because of the way that STRUCTURE-OBJECT
+ ;; inherits both from SLOT-OBJECT and from
+ ;; SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE. In an effort to sweep such
+ ;; problems under the rug, we exclude these problem
+ ;; cases by blacklisting them here. -- WHN 2001-01-19
+ '(slot-object))
+ '(ignorable))
+ ((not (eq *boot-state* 'complete))
+ ;; KLUDGE: PCL, in its wisdom, sometimes calls methods with
+ ;; types which don't match their specializers. (Specifically,
+ ;; it calls ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS (T NULL) with a non-NULL
+ ;; second argument.) Hopefully it only does this kind of
+ ;; weirdness when bootstrapping.. -- WHN 20000610
+ '(ignorable))
+ (t
+ ;; Otherwise, we can make Python very happy.
+ `(type ,specializer ,parameter))))
+