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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 30, Issue 4

Pages 45 - 50

https://doi.org/10.1145/202176.202182

Published: 01 April 1995 Publication History

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A generic function is a set of methods, all of which have equivalent semantics but each of which apply to different domains. This document describes how to augment the Scheme programming language with the capability to define multi-method generic functions. Also described are optimization issues and areas of potentially fruitful future exploration.

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Adding generic functions to Scheme
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Data types and structures
        Procedures, functions and subroutines
      2. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 30, Issue 4

April 1995

74 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/202176

Editor:
Richard L. Wexelblat
IRS IS:AO, Washington, DC

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