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Re: "static" declaration



"Anton van Straaten" <anton@appsolutions.com> writes:

> The design of a properly interface-oriented set of Java classes can be a
> significant improvement over similar classes in a dynamically-typed OO
> language.  Support for multiple explicit interfaces on a class allows for
> decoupling and factoring of designs in ways that make a great deal of sense,
> but often aren't practical to maintain in dynamically typed languages.

You can do something very similar to interfaces with mixin classes in
CLOS, or indeed in Flavors which got named for this capability. In
what circumstances have you found this to be unpractical?

-- 
Bored, now.
Lieven Marchand <mal@wyrd.be>