Re: goops - accessors, methods and generics

2013-03-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
David Pirotte da...@altosw.be skribis: if at least guile designers and goops implementors would have provided a 'switch' so that we could ask that any and all goops related stuff being in a single name space available 'anywhere' at all time [such as guile core functionality is], it

Re: goops - accessors, methods and generics

2013-03-05 Thread David Pirotte
Hello, Right, I had misread part of your initial message by focusing on the lack of a superclass. there is no lack of superclass, your are giving your opinion, which is fine, but i didn't ask, and actually it is a bad opinion: you don't want to [and don't have to by clos spec] create a

Re: goops - accessors, methods and generics

2013-02-23 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
For the mg-3 case, Actually, only (merge-generics) in mg-3 is needed, the accessors are automatically generics. /Stefan

goops - accessors, methods and generics

2013-02-21 Thread David Pirotte
Hello all, given the following 4 modules, I am facing what I consider an inconsistent goops behavior and have one problem which leads to my recurrent request of goops default behavior should be to [a] always create a generic function for accessors and methods that do not [yet] have one, visible

Re: goops - accessors, methods and generics

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hi It seems you are expecting some CLOS behaviour in a language that can not support it. The accessors are generic functions, but each of your modules creates a unique generic function, there is no implicit namespace sharing in Scheme. Define a base module with an appropriate superclass or