is too an application

["Greg Pettyjohn" <pgreg14@qwest.net>]

Suppose I want to save a call to an inherited method into a hash table.
The procedure (another method) that does this is called "add-method"
The problem is that the inherited method takes zero or more args
and so I end up with an expression like this:

(define test-client%
  (class (make-client test%)
    (inherit add-method test1 test2)
    (super-instantiate ())

    (add-method 'test1 (lambda x (apply test1 x)))
    (add-method 'test2 (lambda x (apply test2 x)))))

and an error like this:

#<struct:object:derived-from-definitions-text%>:109:41: class: misuse of
method (not in application) in: test1

Why is (apply test1 x) any less an application than (test1 x)?

The former is semantically correct since x is a list of args but is rejected
syntactically, the later would not work semantically, but is syntactically
accepted by the object system.