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Re: setf.scm


> What do you mean by double-dispatch? Do you mean making two function calls,
> each one doing one of the dispatches?

See:

Daniel Ingalls: A Simple Technique for Handling Multiple Polymorphism
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 21(11) 347-349, November 1986.

See: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/kawa/papers/
for a description of the technique Kawa uses to implement
generic arithmetic.

	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions     bothner@cygnus.com     http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner