Re: Generics vs. Message passing: object namespaces

Pascal Costanza <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:44:48 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.lightweight
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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. ;)

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