>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Seibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I'm new to this list and haven't had a chance to grovel
> through the old archives yet so please forgive me for jumping in
> in the middle of things.
> Anyway, what about languages that don't attach methods to
> particular classes--languages that support generic functions and
> multimethods (i.e. a method is dispatched at runtime based on
> the type of more than one of its arguments.) I ask because I
> started looking at Parrot (and joined this list) because I was
> interested in the idea of writing a Common Lisp that runs on
> Parrot. I had looked at the CLR as a possible target and found
> it too tied to the single-dispatch model of methods "belonging"
> to particular classes. I was hoping things would be more
> flexible here. Was I hoping for too much?
I'd expect defmethod/defgeneric to generate instances of a
"standard-generic-function" and "standard-method" class, which holds
the code and specializations, and whose methods implement CL-style
dispatch; this would make for a convenient MOP, as well as providing
some chance for interfacing with modules in other languages.
Allen
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