14 Jun
2011
14 Jun
'11
5:42 p.m.
On Jun 14, 2011, at 19:30 , Martin Simmons wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:32:50 -0400, Daniel Weinreb said:
But Fare pointed out to me that being able to add generic functions specialized on these would be a good thing. This would mean making them use CLOS not for encapsulation but for genericty.
Use can specialize methods on defstruct classes too, so they don't have to be CLOS instances defined with defclass.
Built-in classes too[1], which means that you can have methods specialized on (e.g.) single-float and double-float, fixnum and bignum, list and vector, etc.
[1] I think, but I cannot find the relevant reference just now.