Re: Extending Open Generics

[Gabor Greif <address@hidden>]

Am Mittwoch den, 4. Dezember 2002, um 01:04, schrieb Rob Myers:

> On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 11:58 PM, Rob Myers wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 11:37 PM, Gabor Greif wrote:
>>
>>> Did you consider the \size generic in the dylan module?
>>
>> I carefully exclude that from each stage of imports. Excluding <class> 
>> is hairier but seems to work OK. :-)
>
> That said, I'm using size rather than \size, as I thought you only 
> needed \size if size() is a macro. Would this affect things?

No, it is applicable to all names. It is needed for macro name 
im/export, because it strips off the syntax-changing nature of macros. 
In all other cases name and \name are equivalent. I tend to write \name 
because it signalises a dylan identifier.

	Gabor

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> - Rob.
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