Re: make-vtable

[Neil Jerram]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> More generally, a three-level architecture like the one you suggest
> would look fishy.  For instance, GOOPS and other CLOS derivatives have
> <object> and <class>, representing respectively the "base" and "meta"
> levels, but they have no need for <class-class>, <class-class-class> or
> some such.

Actually, a lot of the GOOPS doc finds it useful to talk in terms of
three levels: object, class, and metaclass.

Also, in practice, I've done a fair amount of programming using GOOPS,
and have found metaclass-level customization extremely useful.

I think Kevin's new doc is great.

Regards,
     Neil