Effective Method Procedure (SOS 1.9)

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### 4.3 Effective Method Procedure

When a generic procedure is called, it arranges to invoke a subset of its methods. This is done by combining the selected methods into an effective method procedure, or EMP, then tail-recursively invoking the EMP. `compute-effective-method-procedure` is the procedure that is called to select the applicable methods and combine them into an EMP.

Procedure: compute-effective-method-procedure generic-procedure classes ¶

  Collects the applicable methods of generic-procedure by calling `method-applicable?` on each method and on classes. Combines the resulting methods together into an effective method procedure, and returns that EMP.

Procedure: compute-method generic-procedure classes ¶

  This procedure is like `compute-effective-method-procedure`, except that it returns the result as a method whose specializers are classes.

  `compute-method` is equivalent to

      (make-method classes
                   (compute-effective-method-procedure generic-procedure
                                                       classes))