Imagine calling a method on all your superclasses and summing: https://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/object-reorientation-generic-functions.html (method-combination: CLOS is amazingly flexible!)
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I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics.
It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.
The book 'The Art of the Metaobject Protocol' has two chapters in the public domain and available online!
Chapter 5: Concepts
Chapter 6: Generic Functions and Methods