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Re: Philosophy and object systems (was Re: goops/guile doc)

To: Marius Vollmer <mvo at zagadka dot ping dot de>
Subject: Re: Philosophy and object systems (was Re: goops/guile doc)
From: Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe at linux dot zrz dot TU-Berlin dot DE>
Date: 29 Jan 2000 15:25:34 +0100
Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:

> In Lisp, you can easily build a more restricted version of dispatch on
> top of generic functions, but you have a hard time getting more
> `generic' in C++ or Java.

Not true.  Compared with generics, interitance (to avoid the word
polymorphism) is a more powerful concept.

See Meyer's discussion about simulating genericity with inherintance
and vice versa.  

Jost
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