GOOPS 1.0.2 released

[Mikael Djurfeldt]

Version 1.0.2 of GOOPS---Guile Object Oriented Programming System is
now available via anonymous FTP from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/ and mirrors
of that site (see list below).

This release fixes a serious bug in the configure script of GOOPS 1.0.

Compared to GOOPS 1.0, this is mostly a bug fix release.  It also
updates the NEWS file with some history which previously was lacking.
Finally, the new `define-method' syntax introduced in GOOPS 0.1.6 is
now mandatory.

Bugs fixed between GOOPS 0.9.0 and 1.0 include:

* Made method memoization thread safe

* Make sure body expansion works OK for methods.

* Hopefully last fix to method dispatch.

* Avoid using C++ reserved words in goops.h

Although work is needed in some areas, especially documentation and C
API, the object system itself works pretty stably.

GOOPS has been merged into the current development version of Guile
and will be part of the guile-1.5 distribution.

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
Kickzales `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).

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  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-core-1.4.tar.gz

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