From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Do we have to worry about the names of generic functions? Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:14:19 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1084358048.15175.235.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084380926 9457 80.91.224.253 (12 May 2004 16:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Users Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 12 18:55:18 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNx0n-0002dv-00 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 18:55:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNwg7-0006DA-Ee for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNwfE-00060B-5m for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:33:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNwaf-0004w1-TG for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:28:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [129.22.104.46] (helo=mirapoint1.tis.cwru.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BNwOH-0002PK-41 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:15:29 -0400 Original-Received: from multivac.cwru.edu (multivac.ITS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.114.26]) by mirapoint1.tis.cwru.edu (MOS 3.4.3-CR) with SMTP id BLP77159; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:14:20 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 30898 invoked by uid 500); 12 May 2004 16:14:42 -0000 Original-To: Andy Wingo In-Reply-To: <1084358048.15175.235.camel@localhost> (Andy Wingo's message of "Wed, 12 May 2004 11:34:08 +0100") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: Andy Wingo , Guile Users Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:3164 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:3164 Andy Wingo wrote: > Consider a generic, `output'. I assert that x.output() in Python does > not clobber the namespace. Agreed, because that name exists only within "x.". > If output is a bound method, that means it will be invoked as > output(x) -- exactly the same as (output x) in guile. Not exactly - generics sharing the same name don't conflict with each other, but they can conflict with non-generics. (AIUI; my understanding of GOOPS is rather limited.) paul _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user