hi Mark! I think this will enhance our multi-language feature. Other inner language may need it later. And I don't see any harm with this generic-apply. Personally, I wish this could be done soon. Because I'm interested in adding new inner language too. ;-)
Regards. On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I was chatting with the folks working on Python-on-Guile, and it seems > clear that they need the ability to create GOOPS objects that can > emulate procedures. Otherwise they will probably end up creating an > entirely separate object system for Python, which would obviously be > suboptimal. > > I think the most flexible approach is to add a standard generic function > 'generic-apply' that gets called whenever someone tries to use a GOOPS > object as a procedure. I guess 'procedure?' should return true for a > GOOPS object iff there exists an applicable method for 'generic-apply'. > > What do you think? > > I'd like to get this done quickly, because the Python-on-Guile folks > only have a couple of months to do their project, and they need to > decide on their data representation strategy ASAP. > > Thanks! > Mark > >
