Re: Dynamic typing confuses me!

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• Subject: Re: Dynamic typing confuses me!
• From: Chris Double <chris@double.co.nz>
• Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 03:45:02 -0400 (EDT)
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Eric Kidd <eric.kidd@pobox.com> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 01:45:01AM -0400, Chris Double wrote:
> > A just-for-fun definition using methods for memoization:
> 
> Note that many Dylan compiler authors find this idiom to be an annoying
> abuse of the generic function dispatch method. ;-)

Of course...I'm sure we could come up with other wonderfully bad
abuses of the generic function dispatch method and type system if we
tried. The Dylan equivalent of the Obfuscated C contested perhaps!

Chris.
-- 
http://www.double.co.nz/dylan

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