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Re: Smart variables, dumb variables
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Marius Vollmer |
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Re: Smart variables, dumb variables |
Date: |
15 Aug 2002 22:02:09 +0200 |
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address@hidden writes:
> > Should it print #<primitive-generic +> from the start?
>
> Since it actually _is_ a generic from the start, yes, i think it should.
Ok, agreed. Objections?
> Of course, what i'm really after is a test like 'generic? foo' so that
> i can write a macro that does what i think guile should do. Make 'foo'
> a generic iff it's not one allready.
You can't really do that I think. You can't change a procedure into a
generic function. What you can do is change the value of a variable
to point to a new function, which is generic. But maybe that is what
you want.
There is no 'generic?' but you can maybe define it like so
(define (generic? obj)
(or (is-a? obj <generic>)
(is-a? obj <primitive-generic>)))
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