From: Gour <gour@...>
Date: 2003-02-12T00:19:08+09:00
Subject: Re: CLOS-like system & Ruby

Yukihiro Matsumoto (matz@ruby-lang.org) wrote:

Dear Matz,

thank you very much for giving us Ruby, as well as for your reply.

> Which particular feature in CLOS do you want to see in Ruby?

I'm not familiar with the CLOS, but just want to re-write one CLisp
application in Ruby (xindy index processsor).

Here are the words of the Xindy author which describe the required CLOS
features:

<quote>

a) the ability to define methods at run-time using the macro expansion
mechanism

b) the "eql"-specialisation feature that allows specialisation of
methods down to single instances of a class, and

c) the multi-method dispatching paradigm

</quote>

Is these things already/easily available in Ruby?

Sincerely,
Gour


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