Re: Specializing slot-value-using-class in OpenMCL

Larry Clapp <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I'm not Pascal, but did you mean

(defclass b (a)
(slot2)) ;^^^
Yes, thank you!

As far as why it's not inherited, I don't know for sure, but it seems
to me that the inheritance of metaclass in the presence of multiple
inheritance would be very complex.
That makes sense. Now that you brought it up, metaclasses in the
presence of multiple inheritance seems like a very complex issue even
without metaclass inheritance :)

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Regards,
Slava Akhmechet.
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