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From: shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
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Subject: Re: Common Lisp and Object Oriented Programming
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Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 23:42:45 EDT
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> From: cpd@ucla-cs.UUCP
> ExperLisp does not currently implement lexical closures.  That makes it
> difficult to creat an object oriented system.

The keyword there is currently.  Expertelligence is promising to add
closures in future versions (though they didn't say how soon ... )  Version
1.1 will allow programmers to define our own classes, a feature missing from
this release.

BTW, an OPS-5 has already been written in ExperLisp.
-- 
Melinda Shore
University of Chicago Computation Center

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