From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2005-09-24T15:57:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Mutually dependent libs double loading.

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, TRANS wrote:
> Indeed! I had mistakenly thought that Object's methods were tied to
> "self", while Kernel methods were independent and thus could be/were
> module_function. Obviously I was wrong, so now I must agree with your
> analysis.

Well, that's the impression that I too got from reading the Pickaxe, and
although it would've been nice to have them methods organised according to
that scheme, it doesn't have much to do with the actual situation.

And now something completely different: I am now coding quite a bit of Tcl
these days, and I have implemented my own OOP system, and it already
supports mixins/super just like Ruby, except it doesn't distinguish
between classes and modules, because it doesn't need to. This is part of
the DesireData project, whose goal is to rewrite the GUI of the PureData
language in a cleaner way.

I am still coding in Ruby. My latest sizeable chunk of code was used for
coordinating the eight computers in the interactive video installation
exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Arts of Montr�al (for Alexandre
Castonguay) which opened two days ago:

  http://www.macm.org/fr/index.html

(Ruby also does a few other things in that exhibition, but it's not new
code at all)

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