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## 17 CLOS compatibility

Currently, the following functions should behave almost as expected from CLOS.

`defclass`
  All slot keywords are available but not all work correctly. Slot keyword differences are:
  :reader, and :writer tags
    Create methods that signal errors instead of creating an unqualified method. You can still create new ones to do its business.
  :accessor
    This should create an unqualified method to access a slot, but instead pre-builds a method that gets the slot's value.
  :type
    Specifier uses the `typep` function from the `cl` package. See (cl)Type Predicates. It therefore has the same issues as that package. Extensions include the ability to provide object names.

  Defclass also supports class options, but does not currently use values of `:metaclass`, and `:default-initargs`.

`make-instance`
  Make instance works as expected, however it just uses the EIEIO instance creator automatically generated when a new class is created. See Making New Objects.
`defgeneric`
  Creates the desired symbol, and accepts all of the expected arguments except `:around`.
`defmethod`
  Calls defgeneric, and accepts most of the expected arguments. Only the first argument to the created method may have a type specifier. To type cast against a class, the class must exist before defmethod is called. In addition, the `:around` tag is not supported.
`call-next-method`
  Inside a method, calls the next available method up the inheritance tree for the given object. This is different than that found in CLOS because in EIEIO this function accepts replacement arguments. This permits subclasses to modify arguments as they are passed up the tree. If no arguments are given, the expected CLOS behavior is used.
`setf`
  If the common-lisp subsystem is loaded, the setf parameters are also loaded so the form `(setf (slot-value object slot) t)` should work.

CLOS supports the `describe` command, but EIEIO only provides `eieio-describe-class`, and `eieio-describe-generic`. These functions are adviced into `describe-variable`, and `describe-function`.

When creating a new class (see Building Classes) there are several new keywords supported by EIEIO.

In EIEIO tags are in lower case, not mixed case.