[sorry for duplicating content from the email i sent you David] Would anyone be interested in simplifying some of the boilerplate for defining methods in clojs? Currently you have to do this,
(defclass circle [shape] (:radius 10)) (defmulti area :tag) (defmethod area ::circle [this] (* (:radius this) (:radius this) (Math/ PI))) But it seems like 99% of the time this is boilerplate b/c you want multi-methods to dispatch on :tag, so we should maybe have a shortcut to let us do this... (defclass circle [shape] (:radius 10) (defmethod area [] (* :radius :radius Math/PI))) I'm not a macro-wiz but it must be possible to alter that defmethod to check if it's defined and to wrap the symbol refrences with (:symbol this) and cons this to the argument list. Just a thought, Aria On Jan 22, 7:55 pm, "evins.mi...@gmail.com" <evins.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 19, 12:38 am, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Of course it might be the case that not many people are interested in the > > implementing ideas from CLOS for Clojure > > It's definitely interesting. I'd like to have eql specializers and the > ability to build hierarchies of arbitrary types (e.g. a hierarchy of > strings for one particular application I'm working on), so any hacking > around with CLOS-like dispatching and specializers is interesting to > me. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
