Andre van Tonder <andre_at_het.brown.edu> writes:
> A couple of further questions:
>
> - Are condition types generative?
Yes. It does say "Returns a new condition type."
> - Is the "id" argument in (make-condition-type id ----) purely
> for informational purposes, and can two different condition types
> have the same id?
Yes.
> Also, about multiple inheritance: Since a condition type has no
> special constructor protocol, what prevents one from having multiple
> inheritance of condition types?
It doesn't seem to occur in the wild. Multiple inheritance is used to
model compound conditions in Common Lisp and Dylan, but compound
conditions are mostly (always?) ad-hoc.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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