bad definition of describe-object

[Yehouda]

lisp-binary/binary-1.lisp

Line 1025 in c9bdf5b

(defmethod describe-object :around ((object symbol) stream)

This definition of describe-object specializes only on common lisp symbols, so will clash with any similar definition in any other library. It is therefore bad code.

LispWorks signals an error for such definition,

I don't think there is an easy way to do what it tries to do.