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2 points by nex3 6169 days ago | link | parent

The way I solved this in the Wiki was to give tagged values (except macros) the same calling semantics as their non-tagged equivalents. Thus, you can represent arbitrary datatypes as functions, tagging them to keep track of their type but still calling them.


4 points by vincenz 6169 days ago | link

That's completely the opposite of what I want :)

I want:

    a) The ability to define within arc what happens when a list is 
         used as function, instead of it being predefined in scheme
    b) The ability to do this for any type and custom types.
 
And potentially:

    c) For annotated values to be able to do this per-object, 
        by storing an extra field in there that is the getter, 
        where the default value is the one for the type.

    E.g:  (annotate 'blabla value getter)
If there is no getter, then use the one for type 'blabla

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