Re: Generic Delegation?

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
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On 10 Nov 2025, at 09:22, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This is the CLOS equivalent of Smalltalk's DONT-UNDERSTAND protocol.

The nearest equivalent is no-applicable-method.  The problem is that since CLOS is not a message-based system but a generic-function-based one so the notion of 'who to delegate to' is not well-defined and really can't be at the language level: which of the arguments of the GF is the one which gets to delegate?

--tim

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