ICCS Invited Talk:

Title: CLOS solutions to binary methods
Dr. Didier Verna
Assistant professor at EPITA, France
didier@lrde.epita.fr


Abstract:

Impementing binary methods in traditional object oriented languages is
difficult: numerous problems arise, such as typing (covariance vs. 
contravariance of the arguments), polymorphism on multiple arguments (lack of
multi-methods) etc. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how those
problems are either solved, or inexistent in the Common Lisp Object System
(CLOS). Several solutions for implementing binary methods in CLOS are
proposed. They mainly consist in re-programming a binary-method specific
object system with the CLOS meta-object protocol.


About the speaker:

Dr. Didier Verna is an assistant professor at EPITA, France. He graduated 
from ENST (National Superior School of Telecommunications of Paris) and 
has a Ph.D. in Computer Science.

He gives lectures on Operating Systems, Functionnal Programming, Computer
Typesetting and Image Synthesis in various engineering schools and university
Masters in Paris. His research fields include Genericity and Object
Orientation within functionnal languages, and their efficiency.

Didier Verna is also involved in Free Software. He is a member of the XEmacs
Review Board, a developer of BBDB and Gnus, maintains several LaTeX packages
and contributes regularly to other GNU projects.