CLOS
Proper noun
Meaning
CLOS
(computing) Acronym of common Lisp object system.
Clos (plural Closes)
A surname.
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... it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.
Actual Common Lisp implementations are using CLOS for pathnames, streams, input/output, conditions, the implementation of CLOS itself and more.
An example would be the meta-object protocol in Smalltalk and CLOS that gives developers run time access to the class objects and enables them to dynamically redefine the structure of the knowledge base even at run time.
As a dynamic object system, CLOS allows changes at runtime to generic functions and classes.
I also wrote about some rather good wines that just miraculously showed up on my doorstep, as if delivered by the cork stork or Santa Clos… de la Roche.
In 2009, Le Clos Jordanne winery, of Jordan Village on the Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, received critical acclaim for its 2005 Claystone Terrace Chardonnay, which won the top spot for Chardonnay in the "Judgement of Montreal" experts’ tasting.