Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)

"topmind" <topmind_at_technologist.com> writes:
> Sure, some parameters may be nouns, but which noun gets to be King
> Noun? Rather than arbitrarily promote one, make them *all*
> parameters.
>
> noun1.doX(noun2, noun3); // artificial promotion of a noun One
>
> Versus:
>
> doX(noun1, noun2, noun3); // equal footing

     This is an issue with languages that support only single dispatch, not with OO in general. Common Lisp's CLOS allows exactly what you describe in your second example, while providing strong support for OO.

Regards,

Patrick

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