The new % would solve some problems and you are right about the mapcar thing which can be annoying.
However the ambiguity as to which class is controlling the behavior of func% remains but can perhaps be mitigated by yet another convention requiring you to put the context call in a special place, like in the er.l file of a project or some such? On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de>wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 05:50:07PM +0200, Alexander Burger wrote: > > ... > > (class +Add) > > > > (dp foo% (X Y) > > (+ X Y) ) > > > > (dp bar% (X Y Z) > > (+ X Y Z) ) > > BTW, another serious drawback with the (foo> '+Cls <arg>) approach is > that you can't easily do some things which make Lisp so powerful, which > you can do with a function like 'foo%', e.g > > (mapcar 'foo% ..) > > Instead, you must write a full anonymous function > > (mapcar '((X) (foo> '+Cls X)) ..) > > Same with 'apply', 'pass' etc. > > Cheers, > - Alex > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >
