[Savannah-register-public] [task #7338] Submission of Emacs Object oNtology

[David OToole]

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  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?7338>

                 Summary: Submission of Emacs Object oNtology
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: dto
            Submitted on: Friday 09/28/2007 at 16:24
         Should Start On: Friday 09/28/2007 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Monday 10/08/2007 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
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discards the registration.


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= Registration Details =

* Name: *Emacs Object oNtology*
* System Name:  *eon*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v2 or later

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==== Description: ====
This library adds prototype-oriented programming to Emacs Lisp. In
this alternative view of object-orientation, there are no classes;
instead, objects are "cloned" from other objects called prototypes,
from which the new objects may inherit data and behavior.  Methods
(among other things) are chosen by symbols called selectors, and
employ named arguments as in Smalltalk.

Our strategy is to provide a few primitive mechanisms---objects,
selectors, and messages---and make it easy to build programs with
them. These primitives' default behaviors are simple, and probably
efficient enough for a broad range of applications. (The programmer
can override the default behaviors if more flexibility or speed are
required.)

We use a message-passing model instead of CLOS-like generic
functions. Some people find this un-Lispy. But with message-passing
we are no longer limited to using synchronous procedure calls to
make objects interact. You can (for example) forward messages
across the network or queue them up to be sent to their recipient
at a later time.

Multiple inheritance is not supported, but one may build objects
that respond to multiple interfaces; the latter are called
"protocols".

Hooks are provided for on-demand loading and creation of objects
from various "stores", which may also accept objects for
serialization, storage, and transmission.  These hooks may be
connected to user-provided Lisp code in order to create new sources
and sinks for objects.

There are also several convenience features for the programmer:

 - Macros are used to add several "operators" to the language. Two
   of them are the slot reference operator `@' and the method call
   operator `>>'.  The short symbol names make it easier to type
   and read programs that make use of this library.

 - Slots are valid place-forms for `setf' and related constructs.

 - In method bodies, we use symbol-macros to make slots look like
   ordinary local variables, reducing verbosity even further.

 - As an option, the operators (and several of the macros) may be
   font-locked as language keywords.  See `eon-do-font-lock'.\

The current home page is http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/Eon.html and all
the source links are on that page. 


==== Other Software Required: ====
GNU Emacs


==== Other Comments: ====
Eon is in beta release and you might get errors in the version that's up on
the website.

This is a NON-gnu project. I'd be happy to contribute it to the FSF someday
when it is more mature (and if anyone is interested.)






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