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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
To: Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modules and GOOPS
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 19:38:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8gxepaa.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160731114411.4d36bd08@dell.homenet> (Chris Vine's message of "Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:44:11 +0100")

Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>:

> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 21:00:42 +0300
> Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> [snip]
>> More generally, take a look at <URL:
>> http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/guile/guile-tut_10.html> and how
>> MAKE-CELL has been defined. That's true OOP without classes or slots.
>
> For that simple kind of use you might as well use records.  R6RS
> records are also inheritable, so you can construct type heirarchies;
> SRFI-9 records are not.  Guile provides both.

The key is not to specify types (records or otherwise). Provide a
constructor plus opaque objects that have methods. As for the "simple
kind of use," there is no need for anything more complicated in
object-oriented programming.

How would the MAKE-CELL example above benefit from R6RS records?


Marko



  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-31 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-27 17:53 Modules and GOOPS Kovacsics Róbert
2016-07-27 19:44 ` Jan Wedekind
2016-07-28 22:36   ` David Pirotte
2016-07-28 21:14 ` David Pirotte
2016-07-29  5:17   ` David Pirotte
2016-07-29 17:00   ` Kovacsics Róbert
2016-07-29 18:00     ` Marko Rauhamaa
2016-07-31  3:59       ` David Pirotte
2016-07-31 10:44       ` Chris Vine
2016-07-31 16:38         ` Marko Rauhamaa [this message]
2016-07-31  2:35     ` David Pirotte

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