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Re: GOOPS (Re: Everyone is thinking about the future)

To: Lalo Martins <lalo at webcom dot com>
Subject: Re: GOOPS (Re: Everyone is thinking about the future)
From: Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>
Date: 08 Dec 1999 03:24:45 -0500
Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <199912010422.XAA01070@savonarola.red-bean.com> <87u2m2s22n.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <hhn1rt5ml7.fsf@forcix.burse.uni-hamburg.de> <19991203110029.A30095@triangle.ee.uts.edu.au> <hhk8mwjk4a.fsf@forcix.burse.uni-hamburg.de> <19991206081819.A909@webcom.com>


> > I was thinking more about the GMP library inclusion. The one big
> > problem now seems to be on how to efficiently add numbers. The
> > GOOPS type dispatch seems nice, but i think GOOPS would be a
> > little overhead.
> 
> I'd say GOOPS should be used whenever possible, specially if
> the problem is at least remotely similar to object-orientation,
> type abstraction, polymorphism or generic functions.

Mikael gave me reason to believe that the GOOPS dispatch was quite
competitive with the current implementations of +, *, and so on.
Since CLOS-style multiple dispatch is so natural for expressing this
sort of notion, it would be a shame to reject it without hard facts in
hand.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: GOOPS (Re: Everyone is thinking about the future)
  - From: Harvey J. Stein

References:
- Re: I resign as Guile maintainer
  - From: Marius Vollmer
- Re: I resign as Guile maintainer
  - From: forcer
- Everyone is thinking about the future
  - From: Telford Tendys
- Re: Everyone is thinking about the future
  - From: forcer
- GOOPS (Re: Everyone is thinking about the future)
  - From: Lalo Martins

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