On 14 Nov 2009, at 02:50, Mark Engelberg wrote: > together. So would it make sense for multimethods to be included as > part of protocols, or should there be some similar grouping system for > multimethods?
The "old ideas/scratchpad" section of http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/clojure/Protocols mentions multiprotocols, which are about what you describe. > basically gives you partial implementation. But it seems to me that a > lot of times, several interface functions will share some sort of > local state, using closures. The shared state would normally be stored in the object that the dispatching acts on. > If I'm visualizing this correctly, these sorts of partial > implementations couldn't possibly be mixed-in, > because there would be no way to share that state. They could still all reference a common var, just like any set of functions can. But... > Off the top of my head, I don't yet have a concrete example of this > -- has anyone > encountered this yet in their experiments with protocols? ... me neither, so it seems premature to discuss the details. Konrad. -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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