Dear FoNC addicts, I thought some of you might like this article I've sent to the International Lisp Conference 2012: LIL: CLOS reaches higher-order, sheds identity, and has a transformative experience
http://common-lisp.net/~frideau/lil-ilc2012/lil-ilc2012.html http://common-lisp.net/~frideau/lil-ilc2012/lil-ilc2012.pdf The paper got accepted, and I'm looking for comments before sending the final version. I'm sure some of you have at least something to say about related work. The paper is about a data structure library I wrote in Common Lisp, Lisp-Interface-Library, using an "Interface Passing-Style", where these interfaces could be described as "objects without identity or state", "manual type-classes", or "detached class information". They combine parametric and ad-hoc polymorphism, and were used to develop both stateful and pure data structures, in a way that allows for automatic conversion from one style to the other. I believe that whichever language any of you is hacking right now might benefit from this style of library. PS: In case you happen to be around Boston, MA, I'll present the paper at the local Boston Lisp Meeting on October 4. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org Gauss, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, replied that he had reached them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them! [Karl F. Gauss (1777-1855), German mathematician] _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
