Re: Generics vs. Message passing: object namespaces

On 2/23/07, Matt Knox <[email protected]> wrote:
> It shouldn't be hard to make the package system create a dispatch function
> when it detected function name collisions. Then, as long as the argument
> types encode enough information to decide which method to call, you're fine.

Right, this is pretty much what happens when you use defmethod and
load different source files. So we're really talking about module
system deficiencies here, I suppose.

Regards,
Michael