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From: Jan Wedekind <jan@wedesoft.de>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GOOPS with variable number of arguments
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 22:24:01 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1511282218300.7500@wedemob> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3jbxbp7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

Ok, thanks. I'll use that solution.

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015, David Kastrup wrote:

> Jan Wedekind <jan@wedesoft.de> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to implement n-ary operations for different types of objects.
>> When specialising "+" for two arguments, it will automatically work on
>> more arguments.
>>
>>     (use-modules (oop goops) (srfi srfi-1))
>>     (define-generic +)
>>     (define-method (+ (a <string>) (b <string>)) (string-append a b))
>>     (+ "a" "b" "c")
>>     ; "abc"
>>
>> However I have trouble figuring out a method definition for test which
>> would result in the same behaviour.
>>
>>     (define (test . args) ...)
>>     (define-generic test)
>>     (define-method (test (a <string>) (b <string>)) (string-append a b))
>>     (test "a" "b" "c")
>>     ; "abc"
>>
>> Please let me know if there is a solution.
>
>



      reply	other threads:[~2015-11-28 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-27 22:58 GOOPS with variable number of arguments Jan Wedekind
2015-11-27 23:30 ` David Kastrup
2015-11-28 22:24   ` Jan Wedekind [this message]

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