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by flyinRyan 4879 days ago
>Well, with CLOS you really define your verb behaviour on tuples of nouns (methods) and the verbs (generic functions) are separate

You can do this in any OO language as well: with multi-dispatch patterns. What makes CLOS so powerful is that you can do multi-dispatch without resorting to things like the visitor patters. Simply write what you mean with no boilerplate.