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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: O.M(...) vs M(...), and is the Real World O-O?
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Aug26090351@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 08:03:51 GMT
- References: <1992Aug5.162329.22871@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- <KERS.92Aug21150658@cdollin.hpl.hp.com> <t5anrkq.objsys@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: objsys@netcom.com's message of 25 Aug 92 22:06:58 GMT
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- In article <t5anrkq.objsys@netcom.com> objsys@netcom.com (Bob Hathaway) writes:
- Coplien uses the same terminology, that using the dynamic types of
- all arguments, with M ... or O.M ... notation, is called
- multi-methods. Please don't get this wrong again, its getting
- ridiculous. You can say: "We in CLOS don't like others using the
- O.M ... notation to use the term "multi-methods" for their
- multiple-polymorphism even though this is becoming a standard
- practice." But I think a single term is preferred to two.
-
- So lets take the CLOS one. After all, as far as I'm aware it predates
- both Coplien's and you useage of the term.
-
- bevan
-