Re: [Chicken-users] Peculiar TinyCLOS specialization bit

[Andreas Rottmann]

"Joel Reymont" <address@hidden> writes:

>>The only method you've defined takes a <b> instance and an <a> instance.
>>You've passed it a <b> instance and a #f. Since no methods exist for
>>that combination you get the error. Why do you think it should pass?
>
> Well, how do I say "null object <a>" then? 
>
You can't, since the obvious choice is of class <boolean>, not of
class <a>.

> The logical way to say it is with #f and thus I'm expecting it to
> pass.
>
I'm pondering on extending TinyCLOS with predicate dispatch. You then
could express (instance of class <a> or #f).

Regards, Rotty
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