Re: macros vs. blocks

[Lieven Marchand <address@hidden>]

Avi Bryant <avi@beta4.com> writes:

> Note that you couldn't easily do this in Scheme (because you can't
> add methods to arithmetic functions, for example) or even in CLOS
> (because there's no equivalent of Smalltalk's #doesNotUnderstand:).

I've never seen this style used in CLOS but you could add methods to
the NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD generic function. A bigger problem for this
specific example is that the arithmetic functions aren't (guaranteed
to be) generic functions in CL.

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