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What is the need for CLOS? Are we trying to build a kitchen sink here? Hong > -----Original Message----- > From: David L. Nicol [mailto:david@kasey.umkc.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:43 PM > To: perl6-language@perl.org > Subject: CLOS multiple dispatch > > > http://www.jwz.org/doc/java.html includes the following gripe > about Java: > > > I sure miss multi-dispatch. (The CLOS notion of doing > > method lookup based on the types of all of the arguments, > > rather than just on the type of the implicit zero'th > > argument, this). > > CLOS is of course the Common List Object System, and feeding > "CLOS multiple dispatch" into a search engine gives more > theses than you can shake a dry-erase marker at. > > > -- > David Nicol 816.235.1187 > KAK OH CKA3AT >Thread Previous | Thread Next