From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-09-13T16:46:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Multimethods (was Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby)

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:19:30PM +0900, Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
> > This has power of multi-method, and
> > simplicity of ordinary method. 
> It depends on how you think objects and methods to have to work
> together. Most OO langauge includes Ruby see methods as "element of an
> object" This does not hold for CLOS. You loose the tight relationship
> but gain a new level of flexibility. 

Isn't this (conceptually if not technically) what happens with methods
defined in mixin modules?  We define methods without attaching them to
any particular class, even using instance variables, then we bolt them
to a class as we like.  What I am missing?


Massimiliano