From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-08-25T23:21:45+09:00 Subject: Re: [(CORE/)LIB:PROPOSAL/DISCUSSION] Rifling Through Smalltalk's Drawers thoran@thoran.com writes: > Similarly, there's Lisp. Way older than Smalltalk again. What has > Lisp to contribute? Well, I read the other day about Rails' new > method alias_method_chain at > http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/4/26/new-in-rails-module-alias_method_chain. And > according to Jon Tirsen, who commented therein, alias_method_chain is > apparently very much like a Lispy technique which is known as 'around > advice' although I'm not sure how it gets that name and haven't > encountered it myself. It's called "around advice" because the function to define it is called DEFADVICE with an "around" parameter (as opposed to "before" or "after"). > thoran -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org