What problem are we trying to solve?

Perhaps some of the traffic around classes derives from the fact that 
we're trying to solve different problems. This whole thread seemed to 
start with two issues:

  1. call_() on "instance objects" is non-intuitive and hard to override.

  2. str_() on "instance objects" is non-intuitive and hard to override.

There are solutions to these problems that involve minimal or no 
language change.

Another stated problem is that people coming from Python just feel 
confused by the prototype model. But if the prototype model is truly 
simple, they'll pick up on it quickly. So I personally feel that this is 
not an important problem to tackle.

Are there other important problems to be solved?

  Paul Prescod