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Re: s-exprs + prototypes



On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Steve Dekorte wrote:

> On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 12:42 AM, Anton van Straaten wrote:
> > But you've built Lisp on top of a system which inside its objects,
> > already supported functions - it's a bit like building bricks out of
> > houses.
>
> Consider this question: What is the difference between a method in an
> object and a function in a scope?

While I feel that this thread's line of reasoning so far is crude and
wasting bandwidth, there is a related notion which may help: a generalized
notion of dispatch described at http://cliki.tunes.org/Dispatch .

-- 
Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
http://tunes.org/~water/