Disambiguate method from function

Disambiguate method from function

[Duncan Mak]

Hello all,

I have some code like this,

(define-simple-class Person ()
>   ((hello)
>    (hello "Calling from method")))
>


(define (hello message) (format #t "~A~%" message))
>


(hello "Calling from function")
> ((Person):hello)


This doesn't work because I think it gets confused between hello the method
and hello the function:

test.scm:3:4: call to 'hello' has too many arguments (1; must be 0)


I could of course resolve this by renaming 'hello' the function to
something like 'hello*', but is there another way to disambiguate the two?

-- 
Duncan.

Re: Disambiguate method from function

[Per Bothner]

On 12/16/20 12:49 AM, Duncan Mak via Kawa wrote:
> This doesn't work because I think it gets confused between hello the method
> and hello the function:
> 
> test.scm:3:4: call to 'hello' has too many arguments (1; must be 0)
> 
> 
> I could of course resolve this by renaming 'hello' the function to
> something like 'hello*', but is there another way to disambiguate the two?

Nothing I can think of to explicitly disambiguate.  (I tried some.)

I suggest using an alias:

(define-simple-class Person ()
   ((hello)
    (%hello "Calling from method")))

(define (hello message) (format #t "~A~%" message))
(define-alias %hello hello)

(hello "Calling from function")
((Person):hello)

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