Re: should GOOPS be built-in?

[Michael Vanier <mvanier at bbb dot caltech dot edu>]

> > 
> > > > > > Gregor Kiczales' "The art of the metaobject protocol" is excellent.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Where? Is this free? Can it be distributed with GOOPS?
> > > > 
> > > > This is a book which you will find at, e.g., Amazon.  Chapter 5, which
> > > > contains the spec of the MOP for CLOS, can be downloaded via
> > > > Kiczales' homepage at Xerox PARC.
> > > 
> > > So we need at least a brief _free_ intro to be distributed with
> > > GOOPS. If possible, written by someone who read this book.
> > > (Sorry to be playing RMS here, but we just agreed that
> > > documentation is one of the major points to work on. And well,
> > > I actually _like_ RMS, hehehe)
> > 
> > You're right.  Who will do it?
> 
> Someone who wants goops in the core enough to write it, I guess.
> 
> -- 
> Greg
> 

Are you advocating that no changes to the guile core be accepted unless
they're accompanied by documentation?  That would be an interesting idea,
but I'm not sure the guile world is ready for it...

Mike