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

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Is anyone else's brain incapable of maintaining the distinction between
> "specializer" and "generalizer"? I cannot remember which is which, or
> exactly how they differ, and its one of the major obstacles to me
> actually reading and understanding cl-generic.el.

The manual doesn't even mention the term "generalizer".  I don't have a
clue.  Is the term common in Common Lisp?  The implementation in
cl-generic is hard to understand without some previous knowledge.

Michael.