[hunchentoot-devel] CLOS versus closures

[Jonathon McKitrick]

I admit, I've been caught up in the On Lisp mentality lately.  It
seems intriguing, especially because CLOS can be so verbose, and
macros seem to work more naturally with closures, from what I have
learned.

So the best answer here is CLOS is the best way to add extensibility
to Hunchentoot, correct?

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Edi Weitz<edi at agharta.de> wrote:
> 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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