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Re: Swindle question & bug report

To: sk@cs.brown.edu
Subject: Re: Swindle question & bug report
From: Matthias Felleisen <matthias@cs.rice.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:18:39 -0600 (CST)
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Let me try to explain. The most important advantage of CLOS style
structure-classes is their openess. They can solve our extensible
data structure problem with open classes relatively easily by 
slipping in additional methods into an existing class. We get 
other advantages. In particular, we could slap a type system on
our class system that blesses almost all of our class programs. They
can't. (Well I don't think so.)

-- Matthias

References:
- Re: Swindle question & bug report
  - From: Noel Welsh <noelwelsh@yahoo.com>
- Re: Swindle question & bug report
  - From: Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk@cs.brown.edu>

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