not included, and neither are more exotic arguments added as part of the
method delegation protocol."))
+(export 'effective-method-live-p)
+(defgeneric effective-method-live-p (method)
+ (:documentation
+ "Returns true if the effective METHOD is live.
+
+ An effective method is `live' if it should actually have proper method entry
+ functions associated with it and stored in the class vtable. The other
+ possibility is that the method is `dead', in which case the function
+ pointers in the vtable are left null."))
+
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