On 7/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> C++ originally specified multiple inheritance, but it wasn't "cooperative" in
> the sense that super is. In Lisp, though, where cooperative method dispatch
> originated, call-next-method does basically the same thing in the case where
> there's no next method: it calls "no-next-method" which signals a generic
> error.
Don't forget Lisp's "next-method-p", which tests ("-p" for
"predicate") if there is any next method to call. Highly elegant, I'd
say.
> http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/locfun_call-next-method.html
http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/locfun_next-method-p.html
- Willem
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