Thanks Luc and Stuart for your answers. I will try to make my protocols more orthogonal than hierarchical in order to make them fit this philosophy.
On 2011-08-28, at 3:43 PM, Stuart Sierra wrote: > Hi Alexandre, > > Clojure Protocols do not support inheritance. This was a design choice. > Protocols are more than just Java interfaces because they can contain method > implementations for pre-existing classes. Inheritance would make the call > site caching in the implementation of protocols more complicated. > > You can achieve the same thing by simply extending your types to both > protocols. > > -Stuart Sierra > clojure.com > > -- > 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 -- 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
