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Re:I would have hired Doug, but... by munificent on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @04:23PM (#9501551)
> no other language has co-opted yet.

Check out Dylan, Julia, and my old hobby language Magpie[1].

[1]: http://magpie-lang.org/multimethods.html

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Re:I would have hired Doug, but... by lisper on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @05:04PM (#9501808)
I guess I should have said: no other mainstream language.
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Re:I would have hired Doug, but... by PuercoPop on Thursday May 07, 2015 @05:47PM (#9508544)
Julia has generic function but they are not defined in Julia itself nor is dispatch mechanism can be extended in Julia itself. CLOS is all about meta-circular semantics so I wouldn't include Julia in there (at least not fully)
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