7 Jun 15:39
Re: CLOS keeps on surprising me
From: Toomas Altosaar <Toomas.Altosaar@...>
Subject: Re: CLOS keeps on surprising me
Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.mcl.general
Date: 2008-06-07 13:39:00 GMT
Subject: Re: CLOS keeps on surprising me
Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.mcl.general
Date: 2008-06-07 13:39:00 GMT
Strange that I was just thinking of you when I posted this question.Thanks for the reasoning! >A compiler could theoretically detect that the standard method >combination is used, and thus anticipate that qualifiers other >than :before, :after and :around are invalid. However, in the general >case, method combination can be performed by some user-defined >algorithm, and thus it is impossible to predict in the general case >which qualifiers are acceptable or not. This could, for example, >depend on runtime state of the system. > > >Pascal > >-- >Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@..., http://p-cos.net >Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab >Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >info-mcl mailing list >info-mcl@... >http://clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/info-mcl _______________________________________________ info-mcl mailing list info-mcl@... http://clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/info-mcl
Thanks for the reasoning!
>A compiler could theoretically detect that the standard method
>combination is used, and thus anticipate that qualifiers other
>than :before, :after and :around are invalid. However, in the general
>case, method combination can be performed by some user-defined
>algorithm, and thus it is impossible to predict in the general case
>which qualifiers are acceptable or not. This could, for example,
>depend on runtime state of the system.
>
>
>Pascal
>
>--
>Pascal Costanza, mailto:
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