Re: [Tcllib-devel] how many OO extensions are in tcllib?

[Virden, L. W. <lv...@ca...>]

Do we really want to get into the business of telling people what they
must use? That, for instance, they cannot turn something over using
their own OO system? That would seem to be counter to the idea of
encouraging code sharing.

And who gets to go through and rewrite the existing modules? And, when
done so, are they really going to be prepared to support that module
from that point on? Because, if I were an author, and someone rewrote my
code to use a different coding style/technique, I certainly wouldn't
expect to be contacted for details or support at that point.

For that matter, should code in tcllib be rewritten towards the OO
namespace, or a tcllib extended OO system such as snit?
Many things remain to be discussed...

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Subject: Re: [Tcllib-devel] how many OO extensions are in tcllib?


Will Duquette wrote:

> Andreas looked it over recently, and counting all of the various ad=20
> hoc OO mechanisms used by individual packages concluded that there are

> 17 (IIRC) different ways of implementing object interfaces in Tcllib=20
> at present.
>
This raises the question what the consequences of a core OO mechanism
should be:

- Use the core OO only for new modules (they will be limited to 8.5
then)?
- Restyle the existing ones to take advantage of the core OO (same=20
limitation,
  even worse)?
- Dual implementation?

I have no doubt OO will be useful, but we need to think about the=20
existing code too.

Regards,

Arjen

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