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From: ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make-vtable
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:01:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wktrwur.fsf@laas.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877iulwxzd.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:26:14 +1100")

Hi,

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> I know the "values" struct is doing exactly this, but I suspect it's
> abusing the vtable system.  I suspect that what scm_init_stacks() in
> stacks.c is doing is normal (if there's such a thing as "normal").

I'm not sure the indirection in `scm_init_stacks ()' is needed since it
uses STACK_LAYOUT for both VTABLE and SCM_STACK_TYPE, and `make-struct'
doesn't look at the vtable's vtable anyway (when creating instances of
SCM_STACK_TYPE).

> Perhaps we have an expert lurking here, but I think make-vtable-vtable
> does in fact do what its name suggests: make a vtable for creating
> vtables.

More generally, a three-level architecture like the one you suggest
would look fishy.  For instance, GOOPS and other CLOS derivatives have
<object> and <class>, representing respectively the "base" and "meta"
levels, but they have no need for <class-class>, <class-class-class> or
some such.

Thanks,
Ludovic.


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-14  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-12 21:13 make-vtable Kevin Ryde
2007-02-13  8:13 ` make-vtable Ludovic Courtès
2007-02-13 21:26   ` make-vtable Kevin Ryde
2007-02-14  8:01     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2007-02-14 20:51       ` make-vtable Kevin Ryde
2007-02-15  8:45         ` make-vtable Ludovic Courtès
2007-02-16  0:07           ` make-vtable Kevin Ryde
2007-02-16  8:12             ` make-vtable Ludovic Courtès
2007-02-18 18:10       ` make-vtable Neil Jerram
2007-02-18 20:05         ` make-vtable Ludovic Courtès
2007-02-18 23:56           ` make-vtable Neil Jerram
2007-02-19  0:14             ` make-vtable Kevin Ryde
2007-02-19  0:39               ` make-vtable Neil Jerram
2007-02-19  8:39               ` make-vtable Ludovic Courtès
2007-03-06  0:27                 ` make-vtable Kevin Ryde
2007-03-06  8:32                   ` make-vtable Ludovic Courtès

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