Re: Generics vs. Message passing: object namespaces

On 23 Feb 2007, at 17:05, Randall Randall wrote:

> So, while normal functions have to be disambiguated with
> a package qualifier or explicitly renamed, generic functions
> which have methods whose signatures don't conflict are
> easily thought of as a single conceptual generic function,
> and should be combined in using packages by default.  In
> my opinion. :)

I don't want to let this deteriorate into a discussion about the CL  
package system, so I will try to keep the response simple: The CL  
package system doesn't organize generic functions (or classes or  
functions or variables or whatever). It only organizes names. So what  
you seem to want doesn't seem possible to me.

I would expect the Dylan module system to be closer to what you want,  
but I don't know the details here.



Pascal

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