On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:23 PM, kovas boguta <kovas.bog...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Engelberg > <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I never said I want inheritance. I want convenient reuse of partial > > implementations. Inheritance is one way to achieve it, but I'd like to > > think that Clojure can find a better way. > > We also have macros. > > You can always make your own > > (defmytype TypeName ...) > > and make compile to a deftype that rolls in the protocol > implementations you want to reuse. > > Yes, I can make a macro, but that won't do any good in terms of my reusing other people's code that have not been written in this manner. If large bodies of code are written implementing protocols using the mechanism provided by defrecord, and then I can't conveniently reuse that implementation without seeing it and copying and pasting it, I still have a problem, macro or not. -- 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
