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> Here is beefed up version, ready for inspection. > It supplies a CLOS like interface, inheritance, > blah, blah, blah! Have fun. > > Oh yah, it was slightly tested on Guile 1.3a. This is completely astonishing... now you should re-implement the module system in terms of your object system! I'll bet they don't do things like this on the Perl list, by golly. Actually... Mikael Djurfeldt was really hot to give Guile a Meta-Object Protocol, which is (if my very shaky understanding serves me) a way to customize the implementation of the object system itself, in a class-like manner. So, although the current module system isn't designed right to give things like this reasonable performance, it's conceivable that, by using different meta-classes, you could implement classes this way and get decent performance. But I must admit that I don't really understand the art of the meta-object protocol... which I should...