[plt-dev] feature request

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Thu Apr 15 10:36:33 EDT 2010

On Apr 15, Noel Welsh wrote:
> I agitated for something along these lines some time ago. To be
> honest I can never remember the object syntax and I much prefer
> scheme/dict style dispatch to (send ...) I also think such an OO
> system has the nice property of using the module system as a module
> system rather than using class for said purpose.  Eli knocked out a
> little OO system along these lines and I then dropped the ball.

(It wasn't really an OO system -- it was more like an organized way to
define such property-based methods.  (I didn't think it through, so
perhaps there is an OO system at the end of that.)  I can resurrect
the code, probably.  IIRC, it was close to workable.)

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