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- From: bill@cambridge.apple.com (Bill St. Clair)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: MOP in MCL 2.0
- Message-ID: <9208172027.AA06706@cambridge.apple.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 21:30:26 GMT
- Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
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- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
- Full-Name: Bill St. Clair
- Original-To: moore@cs.utah.edu (Tim Moore)
- Original-Cc: info-mcl
-
- >I understand that the MOP as defined in AMOP isn't complete in MCL
- >2.0. How much MOP is there? Are there plans to implement the full MOP
- >in the near future?
-
- MCL 2.0 includes only a small number of introspective MOP functions.
- They are documented in the new reference (shipping with MCL 2.0 final
- and updates) and in the file:
-
- /pub/mcl2/docs/introspective-mop.txt
-
- on the anonymous FTP server at cambridge.apple.com.
-
- We are not currectly planning to do a complete MOP in the near
- future. There are only so many of us here to work on MCL and
- since people have not been beating down our door asking for the
- MOP (though the people who DO ask for it tend to shout), its
- place in our priority list makes it unlikely to happen very soon.
-
- I probably WILL do SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS in the near future.
- I already have a cheap implementation that slows down all SLOT-VALUE
- calls and isn't called by DEFCLASS generated accessor functions. Ask and
- I'll send it (or post it if demand is great).
-