Re: [Chicken-users] handle "unbound variable" exception for undefined procedures?

[Shawn Rutledge]

On 12/24/08, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:53:15AM +0100, Tobia Conforto wrote:
>  > Mind you, this is the simplest implementation possible, without
>  > inheritance, polymorphism or anything useful.  But if you find (or
>  > write) a full-fledged object system that works like this (probably
>  > based on table lookup instead of static pattern matching) then you
>  > will have no trouble adding a handler for unknown methods that fetches
>  > the definitions on the fly.
>
> One such object system is Prometheus, for which there's a Chicken egg.
>  It has a message-not-understood message, which is sent to the object
>  when the object nor any of its prototypes know of the message.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not feeling too keen on switching
object systems just for this.  I think I like the generic function
concept (put the verb first, just as you always do in an expression to
be evaluated).