8.11.10 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)
  • apply-method (generic)
  • no-next-method (generic)
• no-applicable-method

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