Re: [Xotcl] TIP #257: Object Orientation for Tcl

From: Neil Madden <nem_at_cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:50:46 +0100

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> I know that many on this list will be interested in the
> following TIP just propsed:
>
> TIP #257: Object Orientation for Tcl
> http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/257
>
> This is indeed based on xotcl, but it is *not* xotcl. There
> are good reasons for this overall (but not necessarily for
> each individual change ;) ). I would like xotcl users who
> are interested to please read this TIP carefully, but to
> bear a few items in mind:

I feel slightly uneasy that debate about this TIP is occurring here and
on the wiki, and yet notification of its existence hasn't even reached
tcl-core yet. I have written some fairly substantial notes on the TIP at
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~nem/newoo.txt . These notes were supposed to
be a post to tcl-core, but I don't want to further pre-empt the TIP
publication.

I'm only an occassional XOTcl user, so my comments are aimed mostly at
what I think would be consistent and useful for Tcl generally, and not
consistency with XOTcl.

Anyway, many cheers to you all for kicking off this process.

-- Neil