On 7/17/2021 1:10 AM, Alexis King wrote:
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a complex, possibly error-prone, way to front-end class method dispatch
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This brings me to my question: is there any simpler way to do this?
And are there any hidden gotchas to my technique?
I'm still trying to understand how it works. 8-)
However, it occurs to me that, in Lisp, using defgeneric with
/method-combination :most-specific-last/ solves the problem quite
nicely. Eli Barzilay's old Swindle package still is available ... I
know it had generic methods, but I don't recall whether it implemented
method combination.
I also recall some years back that you wrote about using racket/generic
and created a simple multiple dispatch system. There doesn't seem to
whole be a lot of documentation regarding generics (other than as
applied to interfaces), so I'm fuzzy on what they can / can't do.
Anyway I doubt Lisp-like generic methods are what you want (else you
wouldn't have started with classes), but it seems that you are trying to
achieve similar functionality.
George
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