Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS (1988, Addison-Wesley

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, ISBN 0-201-17589-4) is a book

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 by Sonya Keene on the Common Lisp Object System. Published first in 1988, the book starts out with the elements of CLOS

CLOS

The Common Lisp Object System is the facility for object-oriented programming which is part of ANSI Common Lisp. CLOS is a powerful dynamic object system which differs radically from the OOP facilities found in more static languages such as C++ or Java. CLOS was inspired by earlier Lisp object...

and develops through the concepts of data abstraction with classes and methods, inheritance, and genericity towards creating an advanced CLOS program using streams I/O. The book's brief table of contents is given below.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to CLOS Model

2. Elements of CLOS Programs

3. Developing a simple CLOS Program: Locks

4. Programming with Methods

5. Controlling the Generic Dispatch

6. Class Inheritance

7. Defining CLOS Elements

8. Redefining CLOS Elements

9. Creating and Initializing Instances

10. Procedural Definition: Initialization

11. Developing an Advanced CLOS Program: Streams

12. Highlights of CLOS

Appendix A Glossary of CLOS Terminology

Appendix B Syntax of CLOS Operators

Appendix C CLOS Operators Not Documented in This Book



Bibliography

Index

External links

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