CLOS

CLOS is a historical programming language created in 1988. The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) is the facility for object-oriented programming which is part of ANSI Common Lisp. CLOS is a powerful dynamic object system which differs radically from the OOP facilities found in more static languages such as C++ or Java. CLOS was inspired by earlier Lisp object systems such as MIT Flavors and CommonLoops, although it is more general than either. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• CLOS ranks in the top 50% of languages
• the CLOS wikipedia page
• CLOS first appeared in 1988
• See also: common-lisp, java, commonloops, eulisp, emacs-lisp, flavors, interlisp, dylan, guile, islisp, cadence-skill
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Example code from Wikipedia:

; declare the common argument structure prototype
(defgeneric f (x y))

; define an implementation for (f integer t), where t matches all types
(defmethod f ((x integer) y) 1)

(f 1 2.0) => 1

; define an implementation for (f integer real)
(defmethod f ((x integer) (y real)) 2)

(f 1 2.0) => 2 ; dispatch changed at runtime

Last updated October 14th, 2019