On Nov 14, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Joel Dueck wrote:
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> When you talk about functions transparently overriding other functions in
> some kind of inheritance hierarchy, are you talking about ... classes?
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> http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/classes.html
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> I'm familiar with inheritance and overlo
On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 1:48:39 PM UTC-6, Matthew Butterick wrote:
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> When you talk about functions transparently overriding other functions in
> some kind of inheritance hierarchy, are you talking about ... classes?
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> http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/classes.html
>
I'm familiar wit
On Nov 14, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Joel Dueck wrote:
> What if Pollen automatically branched to tag functions prefixed with pdf:
> when current-poly-target is 'pdf ? That is, if 'pdf is the current target,
> Pollen would check for pdf:strong and, if it didn't find one, default to
> plain-ol strong
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> I like these ideas, and it suggests to me that Pollen could have some
> better tools built in for managing poly projects.
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I agree, any additional facilities for splitting out the logic of tag
functions by output format would be welcome as long as they aren't too
complicated.
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