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From: davis@ilog.fr (Harley Davis)
Subject: Re: Essential Features
In-Reply-To: "Stefan Monnier"'s message of 30 Aug 1995 13:10:47 GMT
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Date: 11 Sep 1995 09:13:03 GMT


In article <421o0n$lia@info.epfl.ch> "Stefan Monnier" <stefan.monnier@epfl.ch> writes:

> In article <DAVIS.95Aug28110114@halles.ilog.fr>,
> Harley Davis <davis@ilog.fr> wrote:
> ] EuLisp.
> 
> Which seems to have failed to drop defun in favor of defmethod.

One of the goals of EuLisp is to allow simple and efficient
implementations, so both defun and defmethod were considered
important since it is not easy to provide an efficient implementation
of functions which allows easy dynamic generification. 

-- Harley Davis
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