From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: ludo@chbouib.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make-vtable
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:56:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzxjc94m.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878xevz0xh.fsf@chbouib.org> ( Ludovic Courtès's message of "Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:05:30 +0100")
ludo@chbouib.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Right, but a "metaclass" is the class of class, i.e., a class (IOW, a
> metaclass is an instance of <class> or a sub-class thereof). So that's
> really two levels.
That's true, but then it's also true that a class is an instance - so
you could say that's just one level.
In other words, this isn't clear cut. We're into matters of opinion
here, on what kind of terminology and description is most useful to
someone learning.
>> Also, in practice, I've done a fair amount of programming using GOOPS,
>> and have found metaclass-level customization extremely useful.
>
> I didn't mean to say it's not useful, just that it's maybe not something
> one wants to know when reading about structs for the first time.
That's a fair point, but IMO Kevin's doc layout allows for it by
putting the vtable-vtable stuff last.
Regards,
Neil
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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 ` make-vtable Ludovic Courtès
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 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
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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