Re: How does xotcl compare to ruby?

suchenwi schrieb:
casioculture@xxxxxxxxx schrieb:

One thing that, to me, still isn't clear. Is the new code intended to
be an OO system that programmers can use, by itself, to write
applications? Or is it a framework for OO system writers to use to
write better OO systems? Or is it both?

And how will it relate to existing OO extensions? Will xotcl, snit and
etc still be usable?

Both, and Yes. Donal designed oo to support XOTcl as much as possible
and also considered Snit. As I understand it, both XOTcl and Snit can
be simple Tcl-coded extensions (Snit is now already) building on ::oo.

I have certain doubts about this (concerning the XOTcl part). How much
of the XOTcl regression test does oo run? I am pretty sure that itcl
can be implemented on top of XOTcl (did a proof of concept
implementation a few years ago), and i am pretty sure that snit can be
implemented on top of xotcl (most likely with some gain in execution
speed, if there is some will).

On the other hand, if the itcl community is happy with itcl, why to
force this into a new implementation? The existing Tcl extensions won't
stop working, only because new code is implemented.

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