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author | EuAndreh <eu@euandre.org> | 2021-04-24 17:50:22 -0300 |
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committer | EuAndreh <eu@euandre.org> | 2021-04-24 17:50:44 -0300 |
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parent | Add po files for new TILs, update whitespace of others (diff) | |
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diff --git a/_tils/2021-04-24-common-lisp-argument-precedence-order-parameterization-of-a-generic-function.md b/_tils/2021-04-24-common-lisp-argument-precedence-order-parameterization-of-a-generic-function.md index 67a6799..eb19b38 100644 --- a/_tils/2021-04-24-common-lisp-argument-precedence-order-parameterization-of-a-generic-function.md +++ b/_tils/2021-04-24-common-lisp-argument-precedence-order-parameterization-of-a-generic-function.md @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Combining the order of inheritance with generic functions with multiple argument ``` CLOS has to make a choice between the first and the second definition of `yet-another-fn`, but its choice is just a heuristic. -What if we want to the choice to be based on the second argument first? +What if we want the choice to be based on the second argument, instead of the first? For that, we use the `:argument-precedence-order` option when declaring a generic function: @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Since the dispatch function is required, there is no need for a default behaviou Making the argument precedence order configurable for generic functions but not for class definitions makes a lot of sense. When declaring a class, we can choose the precedence order, and that is about it. -But when defining a generic function, the order of argumentws is more important to the function semantics, and the argument precedence being left-to-right is just the default behaviour. +But when defining a generic function, the order of arguments is more important to the function semantics, and the argument precedence being left-to-right is just the default behaviour. One shouldn't change the order of arguments of a generic function for the sake of tailoring it to the CLOS priority ranking algorithm, but doing it for a class definition is just fine. |