From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2007-03-29T07:30:25+09:00
Subject: Re: general question (different between methods and functions)?

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Alex Young wrote:
> I think of them like this:
>=20
> - A method is a message to which an object responds.
> [snip]
> By this definition, it is possible for an (object,message) pair to be
> viewed as a function.

Of course, the very existence of CLOS makes this definition a little
vague. Since then, it would be the tuple of a "message" and all the
objects (values really) it's "sent to" (which, in CLOS, it quite isn't,
since IIRC, the multiple-dispatch mechanism doesn't have to use the most
specific class of either argument if it wouldn't lead to a match), and
things go all manners of pear-shaped, making a method really only a
tuple of a message name and its arguments, where I can't really see the
distinction between that and a function name and its arguments. (Based
on your definition only.)

David Vallner


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