Interfaces in Lisp
Interfaces are named collections of method signatures.
To run the program, save it to a file (e.g., interfaces.lisp
) and use your Lisp interpreter. For example, if you’re using SBCL:
In this Lisp implementation:
- We define generic functions
area
and perim
which serve as our “interface”. - We create classes
rect
and circle
to represent our shapes. - We implement methods for
area
and perim
for both rect
and circle
. - The
measure
function takes any shape and calls area
and perim
on it. - In the
main
function, we create instances of rect
and circle
and pass them to measure
.
This implementation demonstrates how Lisp’s generic functions and methods provide a form of polymorphism similar to interfaces in other languages.