[Xotcl] Interested in OO for tcl.

Jeff Hobbs jeffh at activestate.com
Mon Dec 4 20:08:00 CET 2006


> Many of XOTcl features are only interesting for special 
> scenarios such as OO-frameworks or wrapping techniques.
> 
> For OO-Beginners these XOTcl-Features might be not interesting:
> - method forwarding
> - filters
> - meta classes
> - slots
> - mixins
> - assertions, pre/post condition
> - non positional arguments
> - object aggregation
> I have ordered the features from most advenced to quite 
> practical in my opionion.

Method forwarding (aka delegation) is an absolute must and common feature for
megawidget development (fwiw).

Jeff



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