Re: Keywords in GOOPS methods v2

Ah... I forgot to complete parse-keyword-formals, which is currently only
rudimentary and doesn't compose the correct argument list for (next-method).

There will be a version 3...

On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 3:43 PM Mikael Djurfeldt <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Guile maintainers might want to consider if we should time this kind of
> change in the API with a particular release. For my part, I think we could
> just add it.
>
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 3:40 PM Mikael Djurfeldt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> This is my second attempt at introducing keyword aware methods in GOOPS.
>>
>> I was split but finally decided to go with keeping keyword non-aware
>> define-method and method and introducing keyword aware new syntax method*
>> and define-method*. Arguments are:
>>
>> 1. It preserves simplicity in method and define-method such that other
>> implementations (like guile-hoot) can choose to only define these (and
>> possibly provide something like Mark's macro doe define-method*).
>> 2. It aligns with lambda* and define*.
>> 3. It is somewhat better at protecting backward compatibility.
>> 4. It preserves the option to also in the internal implementation use
>> something like Mark's macro once this gives equal performance.
>>
>> I've also committed these changes to
>>
>> https://github.com/mdjurfeldt/guile/tree/goops-keyword
>>
>> I'm going to start documenting this now and will then commit it to the
>> Guile repo.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Mikael
>>
>>