On 31.03.2009, at 18:50, Mark Engelberg wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Konrad Hinsen > <konrad.hin...@laposte.net> wrote: >> I think this should be sufficient to cover all cases you mentioned, >> but of course it needs to be tried in practice. > > I think your idea of specifying a sequence of items to try in the > dispatching function, at the point of definition for the multimethod, > violates the principle of allowing library consumers to easily extend > this on their own without having to contact the library designer.
Maybe I wasn't clear about one point: the return sequence is not the sequence of concrete implementations to try (the dispatch function wouldn't even necessarily know them), but a sequence of starting points in the hierarchy from which the standard lookup would start. Konrad. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
