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> It amazes me that people think that it's so easy to do better than > CLOS, which IMHO is one of the lovely parts of of CL. I have no CLOS experience. But I won't let that stop me from expressing my opinion ... * The method precedence order is arbitrary, and (supposedly) "wrong". * I'm not convinced that multi-methods are worth it. They are more difficult to implement efficiently, they make it more difficult to figure out what is going on, they remove the modularity advantage that conventional object-oriented languages have (that methods are associated with their classes). * I'm nervous about a "mostly-functional" language whose semantics depend so much on global state and side-effects. * I'm concerned that efficient compilation and static analysis seem to be difficult. --Per Bothner Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner