From: Gour <gour@...>
Date: 2003-02-12T05:57:36+09:00
Subject: Re: CLOS-like system & Ruby

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

> |a) the ability to define methods at run-time using the macro expansion
> |mechanism
> 
> Ruby do not, and will not have macro feature, but "define methods at
> run time" can be easily done by "eval".

That's great!

> |b) the "eql"-specialisation feature that allows specialisation of
> |methods down to single instances of a class, and
> 
> Yes, it's called "singleton method".  It's little bit weaker than
> CLOS's though, for example, singleton methods for numbers do not work
> well.

Fairly enough.

> 
> |c) the multi-method dispatching paradigm
> 
> No.  This issue have been discussed many times, but no valid
> consensus.

OK. I'll still stay with Ruby hoping that by proper design it can be
circumvented, at Ruby has too many advantages to choose and/or learn another tool :-)

Sincerely,
Gour

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