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Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: "Coby Beck" <cb...@mercury.bc.ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:27:24 +1100
Local: Wed, Oct 16 2002 12:27 am
Subject: Re: How much use of CLOS?
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> that call out for using or not using CLOS? Are there rules of thumb I think Thomas Burdick's advice is spot-on, just use classes all the time > that you use such as (and these may be totally wrong, I'm just > guessing what they might be given my limited experience): always start > with classes and then "downgrade" to structs for performance reasons > or vice versa, always start with structs and then "upgrade" as you > require specific features of classes? until you have identified it as a performance problem and you know it can be a struct instead. Structures are way too brittle when you are still developing your ideas. > Or another way: given that I've spent most of my career programming in Baggage from your past! > an an OO style, my inclination on first opening a new .lisp file is to > to type "(defclass ...". Is that a reasonable idiomatic Lisp approach > or is that baggage from my past that I should try to shed. > Apologies if my earlier post tried to get at this in a too cute, too No worries...it was looking a little provocative, but thanks for clarifying > eliptical, or just plain too stupid manner. your intent. -- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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