[plt-scheme] Question re: PLT object system and CLOS

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 1 11:04:55 EDT 2008

On Mar 31, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Michael Forster wrote:
> A major drawback
>  is that it encourages an impera-tive programming style, where
>  generic methods are mutated to add new class-speciÞc
>  implementations."


The sentence is slightly misleading. (defmethod ...) itself demands  
an imperative implementation. -- Matthias



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