Coolest use of method combinations I ever saw was in celtk https://github.com/kennytilton/celtk/blob/8630194751acd7aebcb55df9b216e275d3... On Sun, 1 Mar 2026, 22:17 Faré, <fahree@gmail.com> wrote:
out of curiosity, what do you have so far from the usual topics?
You can read the draft so far at http://fare.tunes.org/files/cs/poof/ltuo.html The XXX show you where I'm editing, currently at chapter 9.
Are there good motivational examples that fit in a couple of pages? And/or are there good free software or source-available programs and libraries that are worth citing and sending my readers to, to illustrate the power and interest of those techniques?
I've made a few examples on my blog: https://turtleware.eu/posts/Method-Combinations.html -- couple of method combinations https://turtleware.eu/posts/Proxy-Generic-Function.html -- proxying function methods to another generic function https://turtleware.eu/posts/Dynamic-Vars---Return-of-the-Jedi.html -- thread-local variables ala ContextL
Nice stuff, thanks. I might reference that once I discuss the MOP.
Timothy Moore came up with a clever way to parametrize standard classes in
McCLIM:
https://www.jucs.org/jucs_14_20/an_implementation_of_clim/jucs_14_20_3358_33...
What are good papers to cite about CLIM in general?
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