"After a bit of reading and prototyping, I'm quite confident that it's possible to build something considerably more powerful than generic methods or predicate dispatch"
David, I'm trying to understand some of the details of the big picture and motivation. I was skimming through the first paper you provided and I get the impression that multimethods are a limited version of predicate dispatch. (Because the dispatch function doesn't really change unless you make the dispatch function itself a multimethod, which you mention is very slow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5671627/what-is-predicate-dispatch ). However, you state here that you will build something more powerful than predicate dispatch. From the references you cited, I don't understand how you propose to accomplish this. The first paper says predicate dispatch is more generalized than pattern matching. Best, Brent -- 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
