Re: goops - accessors, methods and generics

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Pirotte <address@hidden> skribis:

> if at least guile designers and goops implementors would have provided a 
> 'switch'
> so that we could ask that any and all goops related stuff being in a single 
> name
> space available 'anywhere' at all time [such as guile core functionality is], 
> it
> would be great, but reading you, it sounds it is more like a religion 
> problem: not
> much we can do when it comes to that. 

One problem with GOOPS is that it changes Guile’s behavior globally,
which is not always desirable.

It also introduces run-time and memory overhead here and there.  For
instance, “guile -c '(use-modules (oop goops))'” executes in ~70 ms on
my machine, vs. ~25 ms for “guile -c 1”.

My 2¢,
Ludo’.