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From: klapper@oravax.UUCP (Carl Klapper)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Preserving case for LISP symbol names
Summary: You may still want the mixed case object name
Message-ID: <1586@oravax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 90 16:20:44 GMT
References: <3186@stl.stc.co.uk> <2856214136@ARTEMIS.cam.nist.gov>
Organization: Odyssey Research Associates, Ithaca NY
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In article <2856214136@ARTEMIS.cam.nist.gov>, miller@GEM.cam.nist.gov (Bruce R. Miller) writes:
> 
>   [good idea deleted]
> 
> Or better yet, a macro such as
> 
>   (define-pseudo-method objective-c-op (args ..) "objective_C_Op")
> 
> which would expand to something like
> 
>   (defmethod objective-c-op (args)
>      (network-magic args.. "objective_C_Op"))

While it is easier to construct the Objective C call with strings,
there may still be a need to keep information about object_C_Op in Lisp,
to have a token for it in, say, an Objective C -> Lisp parser, etc.
For these reasons, one may still want a Lisp object of the correct name,
i.e. |object_C_Op|. Or one may want for aesthetic reasons to have:

   (define-pseudo-method |objective_C_Op| (args ..) "objective_C_Op")

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