Veit Heller
Veit Heller
@sdilts the closest terminology match I know is that of multi-arity functions in Clojure. It is less powerful than overloading, since it strictly dispatches on the number of arguments. The...
Hey @Efimero I generally like this idea; it precludes what @jacereda proposes, however, since it’s not extensible (whoever calls `defmulti`reigns supreme). Is that correct?
Mhm, so would it be possible in this case to add a branch after `defmulti` has been called? If so, how would that look?
My implementation can be found [in my bricolage repo](https://github.com/hellerve/bricolage/blob/master/carp/derive.carp).
I think it would be, though I haven’t battle-tested it, and it might yield suboptimal code (or not). We can happily add it and try it out, and I’d be...
I don‘t think I understand the proposition completely just yet: would all code then be essentially static, in the sense of a JIT-like environment rather than an interpreter (but leveraging...
> > I think the current mechanism doesn't make any guarantee that a value turned into a string can be converted back to the original value. That's what I meant...
I just tried to reproduce this issue with the latest version of Pharo 10 (build 1575) on the same platform (macOS 12.2.1). It seems that while occasional hangups still happen...
Should this be a draft PR for now?
Historically I’ve been shying away from screencast/twitch-style talks because it opens up the space of possible talks to submit even more. That said, I’m happy to revisit this discussion going...