Re: Generics vs. Message passing: object namespaces
Pascal Costanza <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:44:48 +0100
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On 23 Feb 2007, at 19:22, Dave Long wrote: > I'd been thinking of this mechanism in pattern matching terms, a la > gopher, haskell, etc., because I'd only been vaguely aware of CLOS > as handling before/after/around, not as providing generic > dispatch. What are the differences between clausal function > definitions and lispy multimethods? See http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/clos-book.pdf [1] Pascal [1] Despite the name of this file, this is not a book. ;) -- Pascal Costanza, mailto:[email protected], http://p-cos.net Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium