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Re: ooops define-class syntax


Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:

> But perhaps the manual should be changed to explicitly dislaim
> compatibility, e.g.:
> 
>   GOOPS is the object oriented extention to Guile. Its implementation is
>   derived from STk-3.99.3 by Erick Gallesio and version 1.3 of the Gregor
>   Kickzales `Tiny-Clos';  however, it is not actually compatible with
>   either.  It is very close in spirit to CLOS, the Common Lisp
>   Object System (`CLtL2') but is adapted for the Scheme language.

I agree that a different wording would be better.  (Unfortunately, we
have spent very little time on the manual.)

GOOPS is truly different from STk and there is a planned change in the
internal representation of slot definitions and an extension of the
meta object protocol which will make it even more different.

(There is a compatibility module (oop goops stklos) which will make it
 possible for GOOPS to run most stklos code, though.)

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