GOOPS

GOOPS

The Guile Object Oriented Programming System

GOOPS is the object oriented extention to Guile. Its implementation is derived from STk-3.99.3 by Erick Gallesio and version 1.3 of Gregor Kiczales `Tiny-Clos'. It is very close in spirit to CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System (`CLtL2') but is adapted for the Scheme language. While GOOPS is not compatible with any of these systems, GOOPS contains a compatibility module which allows for execution of STKlos programs.

Briefly stated, the GOOPS extension gives the user a full object oriented system with multiple inheritance and generic functions with multi-method dispatch. Furthermore, the implementation relies on a true meta object protocol, in the spirit of the one defined for CLOS (Gregor Kiczales: A Metaobject Protocol).

There are plans to merge GOOPS into the Guile distribution.

Please send bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.

Authors are Mikael Djurfeldt and Christian Lynbech.

Mikael Djurfeldt is the current maintainer of GOOPS.

Latest released version is 1.0

Version 1.0 of GOOPS is now available via anonymous FTP as http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-oops-1.0.tar.gz.

This release mostly contains adaptations to guile-1.4 and bug fixes.

The bleeding edge of development is available via anonymous CVS.

The following people have contributed bug reports and fixes for this release:

Thierry Bezecourt
Per Bothner
Karl M. Hegbloom
Clark McGrew
Eric Moore
Nicolas Neuss
Bernard Urban
Maurizio Vitale
Marius Vollmer

Many thanks!

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Updated: Last modified: Mon Mar 5 14:55:45 EST 2001