Re: Generics vs. Message passing: object namespaces

On 2/25/07, Robbert Haarman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Having said that, I don't think the "object dispatch provides more
> namespaces than generic functions" really makes sense. Whether you write
> x.foo or (foo x) is just a matter of syntax. In as far as the type of x
> helps disambiguate foo in the object dispatch case, it also helps
> disambiguate foo in the generic function case.

Exactly.  What I am trying to get across (without much success) is that
with `object dispatch' you look up the type first, then find the method name,
whereas in `generic dispatch' you look up the name first and then find the type.
In either case the space of possible combinations is identical.

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~jrm