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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: CLOS metaobject protocol status?
Keywords: CLOS
Message-ID: <3192@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Aug 90 19:50:33 GMT
References: <13918@shlump.nac.dec.com> <41105@think.Think.COM>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <41105@think.Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>Many CLOS implementations include *a* metaobject protocol.  Most are
>presumably based on the draft specs that have been published within X3J13
>from time to time.  If the CLOS developers from those vendors have also
>been involved in the metaobject protocol design then they may even be more
>up-to-date than the specs.  But there will undoubtedly have to be changes
>made when the final metaobject protocol is adopted.

You are supposing that it will be finished and then approved.
I think there's something to be said for implementations that
don't have an elaborate metaobject protocol.  I also think
there are other things related to Common Lisp (eg, foreign 
function interface) that it is more important to standardize.