Re: Modules and GOOPS

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Kovacsics Róbert <address@hidden>:

> Thank you, I am still thinking in Java terms at the moment.
>
> [...]
>
> But this is a very classes-contain-methods approach and given what you
> said, makes me think that I'm doing this wrong thing.

I'm thinking GOOPS is the wrong thing here.

A better, more Schemey way is hiding in plain sight. Look at how ports
are created and manipulated. You have a rich set of methods that take
the best from Scheme and the classic object/method paradigm, eg:

   (with-output-to-string thunk)

   (with-input-from-file filename thunk)

   (port-filename port)

   (close-port port)


More generally, take a look at <URL:
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/guile/guile-tut_10.html> and how
MAKE-CELL has been defined. That's true OOP without classes or slots.


Marko