But is it Object-Oriented?

Seems like the sort of concerns about multimethods that were current
when the old Cecil paper* was written will also apply to Nice:

'many practicing programmers used to single-dispatching object-oriented
languages complain that multi-methods just don't feel object-oriented.'
...
the extant generic-function-based approach to multiple-dispatching
object oriented languages tends to encourage a function-oriented
programming style at the expense of a data-abstraction-oriented
programming style. Since multi-methods cannot be viewed as completely
contained within any single data type, the generic-function-based
approach treats multi-methods as outside of all objects.'

*("But is it Object-Oriented?" is a section heading in "Object-Oriented
Multi-Methods in Cecil (1992)" http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/174216.html) 



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