CLOS

It is a class-based system, and the first widely-used language to have multiple-dispatch, instance-specific specializers, and method composition. A few artifacts of the fact that it was a late addition to Common Lisp are that it organizes methods into generic functions, a term for Lisp functions which can specialize on their arguments. So it's designed to look like the pseudo-functional style of Lisp while embracing object-orientation.

• The specification.
• Some links.
• A Brief Guide to CLOS by Jeff Dalton.
• The CLOS MOP, a semi-standard system for extension and information.

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