From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
To: daniel szmulewicz <daniel.szmulewicz@gmail.com>, kawa@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: The Expression problem
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:11:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51486d80-0d3f-aa47-caca-9b23b2618174@bothner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAABPU6_r4hZq+rN_DdEvwdJ-43ZTsGRVTYqWqWkhvziuf5yQEw@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/29/22 14:35, daniel szmulewicz via Kawa wrote:
> I was wondering what was Kawa's stance regarding the Expression problem,
> ie. extending existing Java classes.
> ABCL provides a mechanism to specialize on Java classes as documented in
> section 4.5.2 of the user manual. Clojure provides defprotocol and defmulti
> to extend existing types. I skimmed through the Kawa manual and am still
> unsure. I am very curious to hear more from the experts.
You can definitely extend existing Java classes and inetrfaces. See:
https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Defining-new-classes.html
True multiple inheritance is supported.
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--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-29 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-29 21:35 daniel szmulewicz
2022-08-29 21:35 ` daniel szmulewicz
2022-08-29 22:11 ` Per Bothner [this message]
2022-08-30 18:24 ` daniel szmulewicz
2022-08-30 18:24 ` daniel szmulewicz
2022-08-30 18:57 ` Per Bothner
2022-08-30 18:57 ` Per Bothner
2022-08-31 7:13 ` Helmut Eller
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