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From: ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>, Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Subject: Re: [goops] adding a number class with generic methods
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 09:56:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ody73a37.fsf@laas.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66e540fe0605070237r12b1ee34i22dfb7b63a2b1dd8@mail.gmail.com> (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Sun, 7 May 2006 11:37:59 +0200")

Hi,

"Mikael Djurfeldt" <mdjurfeldt@gmail.com> writes:

> In the current module system, the effect of mentioning a variable in
> an export statement is to set up a new, undefined, variable with that
> name.

And thus the first `define-method' creates a new, empty, generic
function.  That makes it sometimes quite tricky to spread method
definitions all over the place (e.g., see G-Wrap...).

Thanks,
Ludovic.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-09  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-04 19:13 [goops] adding a number class with generic methods Marco Maggi
2006-05-04 19:26 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2006-05-06 23:07   ` Neil Jerram
2006-05-07  9:37     ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2006-05-07 11:45       ` Neil Jerram
2006-05-09  7:56       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2006-05-09  8:30         ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2006-05-09  9:43           ` GOOPS and Code Complexity Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-03  5:36 [goops] adding a number class with generic methods Marco Maggi
2006-05-04  7:47 ` Neil Jerram
2006-05-02 20:16 Marco Maggi

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