CLOS solutions to binary methods
From LRDE
- Authors
- Didier Verna
- Where
- Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists
- Place
- Hong Kong
- Type
- inproceedings
- Projects
- Climb
- Keywords
- Software engineering
- Date
- 2007-01-22
Abstract
Implementing binary methods in traditional object oriented languages is difficult: numerous problems arise, such as typing (covariance vs. contra-variance of the arguments)polymorphism on multiple arguments (lack of multi-methods) etc. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how those problems are either solved, or nonexistent in the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). Several solutions for different levels of binary methods support in CLOS are proposed. They mainly consist in re-programming a binary method specific object system through the CLOS meta-object protocol.
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Bibtex (lrde.bib)
@InProceedings{ verna.07.imecs,
author = {Didier Verna},
title = {{CLOS} solutions to binary methods},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International MultiConference of
Engineers and Computer Scientists},
year = 2007,
address = {Hong Kong},
month = mar,
organization = {International Association of Engineers},
abstract = {Implementing binary methods in traditional object oriented
languages is difficult: numerous problems arise, such as
typing (covariance vs. contra-variance of the arguments),
polymorphism on multiple arguments (lack of multi-methods)
etc. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how those
problems are either solved, or nonexistent in the Common
Lisp Object System (CLOS). Several solutions for different
levels of binary methods support in CLOS are proposed. They
mainly consist in re-programming a binary method specific
object system through the CLOS meta-object protocol.}
}