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		cultus on Aug 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Road to Common Lisp Clojure multimethods actually can do more than CL multiple dispatch, because they can dispatch by value rather than just type.

guicho271828 on Aug 28, 2018 | [–]

CLOS can dispatch by value with eql specifier...

fiddlerwoaroof on Aug 29, 2018 | [–]

You can implement Clojure multimethods as an extension of CLOS: https://github.com/pcostanza/filtered-functions

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