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RE: [Xotcl] Interested in OO for tcl.

From: Jeff Hobbs <jeffh_at_activestate.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:08:00 -0800

> Many of XOTcl features are only interesting for special
> scenarios such as OO-frameworks or wrapping techniques.
>
> For OO-Beginners these XOTcl-Features might be not interesting:
> - method forwarding
> - filters
> - meta classes
> - slots
> - mixins
> - assertions, pre/post condition
> - non positional arguments
> - object aggregation
> I have ordered the features from most advenced to quite
> practical in my opionion.

Method forwarding (aka delegation) is an absolute must and common feature for
megawidget development (fwiw).

Jeff