From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1374 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2009 17:08:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 1366 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Sep 2009 17:08:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,DNS_FROM_RFC_BOGUSMX,J_CHICKENPOX_12 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sebabeach.org (HELO sebabeach.org) (64.165.110.50) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:08:16 +0000 Received: from sspiff.sspiff.org (seba.sebabeach.org [10.8.159.10]) by sebabeach.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1F16E3D0 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:08:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A9D54FE.4000104@sebabeach.org> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:08:00 -0000 From: Doug Evans User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cgen@sourceware.org Subject: Re: cos -> goops, maybe not? References: <4A9D52DF.7060108@sebabeach.org> In-Reply-To: <4A9D52DF.7060108@sebabeach.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cgen-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cgen-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-q3/txt/msg00090.txt.bz2 Doug Evans wrote: > I've been looking through r6rs (r6rs.org) and various Scheme > implementations. > > As far as moving to goops, the higher order bit to me is to be able to > run cgen on multiple Scheme implementations. > > I still think we should replace cos, or at least slim it down and > simplify it (and keep it r5rs (or r6rs) compatible). > OTOH, it might be nice to have something that can advantage of the > underlying data structure support of particular Scheme > implementations, it would presumably help when printing objects for > example. > > Anyways, > fyi. > Maybe use r6rs's "records" as a model? We could use the native implementation where preferable, and we can provide an implementation of the subset of it that we use.