Hi, In principle, dispatch is orthogonal to namespacing. It is true that traditional OO systems complect these two things, but there is no inherent need to do so. Separating dispatch (i.e., methods) from namespacing is simpler and more flexible.
This is especially useful when you have multiple inheritance, since the traditional problem of name collisions of unrelated methods does not occur in a system that separates namespaces from types, but there are other advantages as well (such as the nice uniformity of being able to reference methods as first-class functions without resorting to lambda-expressions). Matthias -- 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
