Re: goops/guile doc (was Re: Simple example program to illustrate Goops)

[Lalo Martins <lalo at webcom dot com>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 02:06:41PM -0330, Greg Harvey wrote:
> 
> Actually, it might make an interesting little project to provide a
> translator from a limited OO style of declaring classes (maybe
> something javaish, without some of the funkiness of java) to the
> corresponding goops code. So, you could have something like:
> 
> class Kons {
>         private long car, cdr;
>         public long car() (car);
>         public long cdr() (cdr);
>         public void set-car! (long val) (set! car val);
>         /*etc..*/
>         }

Why not the same thing with well-behaved scheme?

(create-class Kons
   (<int> car ('private))
   (<int> cdr ('private))
   (<int> car () () (car))
   (<int> cdr () () (cdr))
   (() cdr () (<int> val) (set! car val))
   ; etc
   )

or something to that effect? One of the cool things about goops
is that it allows us to ``plug in'' our own object systems -
I'm playing with the idea of writing a dictionary-based one
(similar to Python's) if I find that to be useful to the Python
translator.


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