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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.
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.
This procedure is like
compute-effective-method-procedure, except that it returns the result as a method whose specializers are classes.
compute-methodis equivalent to(make-method classes (compute-effective-method-procedure generic-procedure classes))