[plt-scheme] Planned changes for PLT Scheme 4.0

On 11/18/07, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> Objects, inheritance, and overriding work brilliantly for GUI
> programming. Unlike so many problems, you really do want to represent
> something that's essentially physical, and so the object concept works
> as advertised. I think it's no coincidence that OOP was born (in one of
> its instances) in the highly graphical Smalltalk world, and that OOP
> and GUIs became mainstream at the same time.

There's a difference between how you *represent* things and how you
*compose* them.  Objects work great for representing graphical
entities, but I dislike the highly imperative mode of composition.
The preliminary FrTime GUI library, and Flapjax, are an experiment in
how to keep objects but also return to functional composition.

Shriram