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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: OOP in XScheme
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Date: 21 Oct 90 14:40:03 GMT
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In-Reply-To: STCS8004%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU's message of 18 Oct 90 13:28:00 GMT

In article <9010190348.aa28638@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> STCS8004%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU writes:

   David  Betz describes  his XScheme  as 'An  object-oriented Scheme'  in the
   manual he supplies  with the code [1], but that  manual contains no mention
   of  OOP facilities.  However, OOP  commands are  present in  XScheme. Hence
   these questions:

     1. Is  there  any  user-level  documentation  (not  the  source C code!)
	available on OOP in XScheme, and if so, where?

Not as far as I know, but I didn't post just to tell you that...

     2. Are  there any caveats regarding  the present state (I  have v0.22) of
	implementation of  OOP in XScheme?  (I am considering  using XScheme's
	OOP  in  teaching  since  our  students  use  XScheme for other Scheme
	applications.)

Yes, David is still making major changes in the code, and the
object-oriented parts have been broken as a result at least once.  He
has stated publicly (on Bix) that he will not provide documentation
for the o-o stuff before he is convinced that it works.  So be
careful.

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY