Re: Smart variables, dumb variables

[Marius Vollmer]

address@hidden writes:

> > Should it print #<primitive-generic +> from the start?
> 
> Since it actually _is_ a generic from the start, yes, i think it should.

Ok, agreed.  Objections?

> Of course, what i'm really after is a test like 'generic? foo' so that
> i can write a macro that does what i think guile should do. Make 'foo'
> a generic iff it's not one allready.

You can't really do that I think.  You can't change a procedure into a
generic function.  What you can do is change the value of a variable
to point to a new function, which is generic.  But maybe that is what
you want.

There is no 'generic?' but you can maybe define it like so

  (define (generic? obj)
    (or (is-a? obj <generic>)
        (is-a? obj <primitive-generic>)))

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