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Re: Philosophy and object systems (was Re: goops/guile doc)

Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@linux.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> writes:

> See Meyer's discussion about simulating genericity with inherintance
> and vice versa.  

IIRC by "genericity" Meyer refers to parametric polymorphism, not
generic functions.  Thus his discussion is not relevant to the current
context (or any language with pure dynamic typing, such as Guile).
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