Re: Generic Delegation?
"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html