Thanks for all the replies. This is very helpful to have a google-able term to get started. I will read up on how other people have handled these problems. I would think that Smalltalk would run into similar issues.
Racket is nice to get started with, but eventually I will need to move this onto a different system, so I cannot rely upon Racket's utilities. Even though they are very nice! Thanks! -Patrick On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick Li wrote at 10/16/2011 09:15 PM: > > Does anyone have some tips for wrapping their heads around recursive >> things like this? >> e.g. writing multi-methods using normal functions, and then somehow >> turning everything into multi-methods? >> > > I think that might be a simple module (or Racket #lang) problem: your > module imports the ``primitive'' "car" and "cdr", and exports the > multimethod replacements for the primitives, using the same names as the > primitives. > > > OR writing an object system, where your classes are also objects, etc... >> > > When I was using Smalltalk or Self, I believe this was sometimes called > ``infinite meta-regress.'' I would use that term as a Google starting > point. I'd also read up on all the Gregor Kiczales et al. writings on CLOS, > including the *Art of the Metaobject Protocol* book. > > I'd also take another look at Eli Barzilay's Swindle package for Racket, > which, IIRC, included a CLOS-like object system including multimethods. > Although, you have the advantage of modern Racket, which Eli didn't have a > bazillion years ago when Swindle was first written, so there might be some > new fun opportunities. > > -- > http://www.neilvandyke.org/ >
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