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Re: Rather, DSSLs increase modularity, productivity

Michael Vanier writes:
> > What do you use downcasting for? I've never needed it, ever, but I'm
> > always on the lookout for new programming idioms.
> 
> I had a problem that needed multimethods, and you can fake MM fairly
> easily with downcasting.  The alternatives were not very appealing.

That makes sense. Most of my serious OO programming has been done in
Dylan, which has them.

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Neel Krishnaswami
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