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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.)