David Pirotte <da...@altosw.be> skribis: > if at least guile designers and goops implementors would have provided a > 'switch' > so that we could ask that any and all goops related stuff being in a single > name > space available 'anywhere' at all time [such as guile core functionality is], > it > would be great, but reading you, it sounds it is more like a religion > problem: not > much we can do when it comes to that.
One problem with GOOPS is that it changes Guile’s behavior globally, which is not always desirable. It also introduces run-time and memory overhead here and there. For instance, “guile -c '(use-modules (oop goops))'” executes in ~70 ms on my machine, vs. ~25 ms for “guile -c 1”. My 2¢, Ludo’.
