On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 1:12 PM George Neuner <gneun...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi David, > > On 1/7/2019 12:57 PM, David Storrs wrote: > > I haven't worked with Racket's generics before, but a quick skim through > the documentation suggests that no, that's not it. Racket generics appear > to relate to collections and structs, whereas I was looking for something > that operates on arbitrary functions. Perhaps I've misunderstood something? > > > I wasn't talking about Racket but about Common Lisp. Your examples look a > lot like what is possible using Lisp's generic functions: specifically > "before", "after" and "around" functions. I was asking if Lisp was the > source of your aspirations. > Ah. No, it wasn't. My aspirations were based on experience in Perl, although Perl may have borrowed these constructs from CL. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
