[Scheme-reports] WG2 Scheme and Polymporphism Denis Washington (14 Oct 2011 12:10 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] WG2 Scheme and Polymporphism Alaric Snell-Pym (14 Oct 2011 12:20 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] WG2 Scheme and Polymporphism Alaric Snell-Pym (14 Oct 2011 12:33 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] WG2 Scheme and Polymporphism Denis Washington (14 Oct 2011 13:57 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] WG2 Scheme and Polymporphism Andy Wingo (14 Oct 2011 12:28 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] WG2 Scheme and Polymporphism Andre van Tonder (14 Oct 2011 13:02 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] WG2 Scheme and Polymporphism John Cowan (14 Oct 2011 22:48 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] WG2 Scheme and Polymporphism Andre van Tonder (15 Oct 2011 20:15 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] WG2 Scheme and Polymporphism Andre van Tonder 14 Oct 2011 13:01 UTC

Scheme already has tons of polymorphic procedures, e.g. CONS.

It is easy to write a generic length procedure that works on lists, vectors,
strings, etc.

But in general this kind of programming is overrated.  Object-oriented languages
have failed miserably in delivering on their initial promise.

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