> Sure, but how does that contradict my original assertion that Racket's mechanisms for extending and redefining the language are more principled than either Common Lisp's or Smalltalk's?
Your original claim was "Unlike other languages that also advertise malleability (Common Lisp, Smalltalk, etc.), Racket is malleable in principled ways". Now you added 'more'. We can discuss which you or me like more, but you claimed that Smalltalk and Common Lisp can't be extended in 'principled' ways. Could it be that you just don't like/use/need/want the object-oriented ways to extend those languages and thus these mechanisms are not 'principled'?
How are Racket's mechanisms for extending and redefining the language more principled than for example Common Lisp's CLOS and the Meta-object protocol for CLOS? Especially since Racket provides some of that, too -> Swindle.
I'm using for example LispWorks, a Common Lisp, which uses CLOS throughout to make the language flexible and extensible.
Your original claim was "Unlike other languages that also advertise malleability (Common Lisp, Smalltalk, etc.), Racket is malleable in principled ways". Now you added 'more'. We can discuss which you or me like more, but you claimed that Smalltalk and Common Lisp can't be extended in 'principled' ways. Could it be that you just don't like/use/need/want the object-oriented ways to extend those languages and thus these mechanisms are not 'principled'?
How are Racket's mechanisms for extending and redefining the language more principled than for example Common Lisp's CLOS and the Meta-object protocol for CLOS? Especially since Racket provides some of that, too -> Swindle.
I'm using for example LispWorks, a Common Lisp, which uses CLOS throughout to make the language flexible and extensible.
Is the CLOS MOP not principled? Why?