Re: [CLOS] Ensuring a method exists

Pascal Costanza <pc@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I said "depending on context" for a reason: I think something like
dynamically scoped functions or ContextL can be of use here. For
example, the different cases could be captured in different
ContextL-layers and then selected appropriately.

I don't know if dynamically scoping the equality is the right thing to
do. You don't want your idea of equality for this current situation to
propagate into some other library whose function you happen to be
calling.

Not sure how ContextL really works. Maybe someone can explain it to me
at 7 today. :)

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Rahul Jain
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