From: Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>
Cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se
Subject: Re: primitive-generics are limited in their arities
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:03:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xy78yr12j0c.fsf@nada.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030712102552.GA4329@lark> (Andy Wingo's message of "Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:25:52 +0100")
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
> Hey goops hackers,
>
> I've run into an irritating little bug in primitive-generics where they
> are limited to a specific arity. Here's a little example.
>
> guile> (use-modules (oop goops))
> guile> (define-method (write (foo <list>) (bar <list>) (baz <list>))
> ... (display (list foo bar baz))(newline))
> guile> (write '(4 5 6) '(6 7) '(5 6))
>
> Backtrace:
> In current input:
> 4: 0* [write (4 5 6) (6 7) (5 6)]
>
> <unnamed port>:4:1: In procedure write in expression (write (quote #)
> (quote #) ...):
> <unnamed port>:4:1: Wrong number of arguments to #<primitive-generic
> write>
> ABORT: (wrong-number-of-args)
> guile> write
> $1 = #<primitive-generic write>
> guile> (primitive-generic-generic write)
> $2 = #<<generic> write (7)>
> guile> ($2 '(4 5 6) '(6 7) '(5 6))
> ((4 5 6) (6 7) (5 6))
>
> I wonder if this is a problem with the primitive-generic support or if
> there's something that I'm doing wrong. It seems unnatural to have to
>
> (define-method write ...)
>
> and then
>
> (set! write (primitive-generic-generic write))
>
> I tried to look into a fix but I got lost. What's the word on this?
The arity of primitive generics is restricted to the arity of their
primitive methods.
Thus, if you want to have a different arity, you need to create a new
generic function. In order to preserve the behavior, you can add the
original functions as the default method:
(define old-write write)
(define write (make <generic> #:name 'write #:default old-write))
(define-method (write (foo <list>) (bar <list>) (baz <list>))
(display (list foo bar baz))
(newline))
M
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2003-07-12 10:25 primitive-generics are limited in their arities Andy Wingo
2003-07-14 16:03 ` Mikael Djurfeldt [this message]
2003-07-18 21:45 ` Marius Vollmer
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