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Keith Wright <kwright@tiac.net> writes: > > I just stumbled upon a Guile feature called "structures". > > > > It's a way to have any number of distinct types, without dynamic ID > > allocation etc. It appears to be cool, although I must admit I find > > this stuff (vtables? vtable vtables? huh?) utterly confusing... > > > There's where we differ. I won't call anything "cool" if it is > utterly confusing. The last time I looked, it seemed to be a great > pile of nearly random code accompanied by documentation that was all > jargon. I did not see what it was for, and I wished it would go away. They will, sooner or later---we've been talking about replacing them with something with similar functionality but with a cleaner interface for a long time. However, right now there appears to be lots of more urgent things to do... /mdj