[plt-dev] feature request

I've added generics based on Eli's code to unstable with tests and
documentation.

I went back to the discussion on plt-dev about it over the summer and
made some of the changes, so it's not precisely what Eli wrote. So if
you don't like it, direct blame at me.

Jay

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please revive it Eli. Put it in unstable or something. I will write
> documentation for it if necessary. I think it's a great thing.
>
> Jay
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> On Apr 15, Noel Welsh wrote:
>>> I agitated for something along these lines some time ago. To be
>>> honest I can never remember the object syntax and I much prefer
>>> scheme/dict style dispatch to (send ...) I also think such an OO
>>> system has the nice property of using the module system as a module
>>> system rather than using class for said purpose.  Eli knocked out a
>>> little OO system along these lines and I then dropped the ball.
>>
>> (It wasn't really an OO system -- it was more like an organized way to
>> define such property-based methods.  (I didn't think it through, so
>> perhaps there is an OO system at the end of that.)  I can resurrect
>> the code, probably.  IIRC, it was close to workable.)
>>
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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://teammccarthy.org/jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93