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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: A bit of Dylan smell (Re: Attention all Dylan enthusiasts!)
Message-ID: <1995Nov13.144446.14349@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 95 14:44:46 GMT
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Another correction, pointed out by several people in personal mail:

I (cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)) wrote:

>4) Dylan integrates low-level types (int, double, char) and
>higher-level types, so you can use object dispatch to work on
>them. This is not a big problem in C++, but -for example- in ObjC and
>CLOS.

You can dispatch on build-in classes in CLOS, but you can't subclass
them. What I'm complaining about is that I can't write code that uses
the default array implementation, but overrides specific operations on
demand.

Martin
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