Re: Closures versus objects

Pascal Costanza <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.lightweight
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On 16 Feb 2007, at 19:22, Gary King wrote:

> If Lisp was re-written today, I'd guess that there would be more  
> use of generic functions for things like length. Then we would have:
>
> (length "butter")  ==> 6
> (length #(1 2 3))  ==> 3
>
> and so on...

That's basically what happened in Dylan.


Pascal

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