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Strange to see this show up on the front page now when I wrote this back in 2022. For context, this is a light critique of Guile's CLOS-like OOP system which overall I think is a pretty great approximation of CLOS. I just wanted to write down the things I felt were lacking so I didn't forget them, didn't have to repeat myself whenever one of these issues came up on irc or the mailing list, and could maybe motivate someone to fix them eventually.

Could you motivate someone to do those fixes?

Maybe, but I haven't pushed very hard for it as I don't use OOP very often. I did buy Art of the Metaobject Protocol in case I wanted to try to make some of the improvements myself, but haven't gotten around to it.

Wow, I never knew these deficiencies from gooops. This seems to me like a 'scheme with classes' mindset implementation of CLOS. Given the success of C++ and the like, surely there'll be enough people to productively use this. I'd rather have more "proper" CLOS systems in the world though.

The FP-world worked successfully in dusting mainstream to have rust be a thing, now if we could replace C++ (and simula and whatnot) class-based "object" systems with object-based object system with more advanced capabilities such as sketched in CLOS, that'd be nice IMO.

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