Message Sending

  send object selector {arg}* [function]

• send a message consisting of selector and arg to object. object can be anything but number. selector must be evaluated to be a keyword.

  send-message target search selector {arg}* [function]

• Low level primitive to implement send-super.

  send* object selector &rest msg-list [macro]

• send* applies send-message to a list of arguments. The relation between send and send* is like the one between funcall and apply, or list and list*.

  send-all receivers selector &rest mesg [function]

• sends the same message to all the receivers, and collects the result in a list.

  send-super selector &rest msgs [macro]

• sends msgs to self, but begins method searching at the superclass of the class where the method currently being executed is defined. It is an error to send-super outside a method (i.e. in a function).

  send-super* selector &rest msg-list [macro]

• send-super* is apply version of send-super.