Re: Lisp Design Patterns

In article <1io15qb.f1h0r11jvnak2N%wrf3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
wrf3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Felts) wrote:

Rainer Joswig <joswig@xxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

Imagine (for a moment) you would write that in Lisp:

(defclass pizza ()
((price :type integer :accessor pizza-price)))

(defclass ham-and-mushroom-pizza (pizza)
((price :initform 8.50)))


price is of type integer? 8.50 is a float.

Yep! Please replace it with REAL. Unfortunately most (all?)
Lisp systems don't complain.

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