Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hello, >> >> Carlo Zancanaro <ca...@zancanaro.id.au> skribis: >> >>> On Thu, Apr 20 2017, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>>> There must be some sort of a mapping between service types and >>>> configuration types, indeed, but I’m not sure how to achieve it. >>>> >>>> One solution would be to have all the <foo-configuration> records >>>> inherit (in the OO sense) from <service>, or something along these >>>> lines. >>> >>> This was my first thought. I couldn't see how to do OO-style inheritance >>> with the SRFI-9 API, though. I'm not very experienced with Guile (or >>> scheme generally), so I might do some more reading about that. >> >> SRFI-99 supports inheritance, though there’s currently no SRFI-99 module >> in Guile proper: >> >> https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-99/srfi-99.html >> >> Oh and there’s also R6RS records, SRFI-35… no shortage of record APIs! >> :-) > > A record interface with inheritance! Neat. > > Though hey, if you're going to add inheritance, we also have GOOPS, and > with the clone macro I sent to the mailing list a while ago that I > worked on with Janneke, we even have immutable GOOPS! ;) > Plus then you get generic methods!
Point taken! :-) I genuinely didn’t even think about GOOPS here ;-), but you’re right. Ludo’.
