[hunchentoot-devel] CLOS versus closures

[Edi Weitz]

Thanks Peter, that's basically the same answer I would have given... :)

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Peter Seibel<peter at gigamonkeys.com> wrote:
> Hmmm. I'm not sure those things are "often considered 'better'" except
> perhaps by Paul Graham. Anyway, the current architecture, as I
> understand it, is designed to be extensible in various ways. To build
> that level of extensibility using closures, etc. you would end up
> implementing something like CLOS.
>
> -Peter
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Jonathon McKitrick<jmckitrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>> quick question... Hunchentoot recently (?) moved to a more OO model,
>> correct?  I'm just curious... since lambda expressions, closures, macros,
>> and other lisp constructs are often considered 'better' than CLOS (less
>> verbose, less overhead), what made Edi decide to move to the more OO design?
>>  Surely it wasn't just popular demand.  ;-)
>>
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