From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T02:06:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

> From what I remember CLOS has distinct class and method hierarchies,
> and multi-dispatch of methods on all parameters.  You can specialize
> functions depending on almost anything, not just class of the first
> parameter, which is the implicit receiver in message based OO systems.

I believe this is correct, and if I recall correctly it means that
CLOS is a superset of all normal OO systems. But I could be wrong.

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Giles Bowkett
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