[racket] About genericity...

On 02/04/2014 20:53, Alejandro Zamora Fonseca wrote:
> (defmethod dup ((a string))
>       (concatenate 'string a a))
>
> (defmethod dup ((a integer))
>        (list a a))

1) From the standard Racket "swindle/tiny-clos" library, you can use the 
CLOS-like functions that you may already know from Common Lisp.

2) I have written a short library myself for this, and your code would 
look like this:

(def-multi dup)
(add-multi dup (list string?)  (lambda (a) (string-append a a)))
(add-multi dup (list integer?) (lambda (a) (list a a)))

(dup "Hello") => "HelloHello"
(dup 10) => '(10 10)

I can share it if you're interested, it's roughly 40 lines of code.

-Patrick