[hackers] status of DUIM

Hannes Mehnert hannes at mehnert.org
Sat Jun 28 00:17:09 CEST 2008


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Hi there,

Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney wrote:
> I've found Dylan gets referenced surprisingly frequently, usually in
> passing references to it's object model, being a lisp descendant with
> non-lisp syntax (and keeping macros), or originating the C3 method
> resolution order. (btw, does Dylan actually use C3? This bug:
> https://www.opendylan.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7044 makes
> it look like d2c doesn't implement it, and I can't find references for
> OpenDylan.) Personally, I think Dylan could use a little hype. :)

No, Open Dylan also doesn't use C3 linearization. I just committed a lid
file and library for examples/linearization which shows the following
output:
The linearization in this compiler seems to be Dylan
The CPL is: #({class <editable-scrollable-pane>}, {class
<scrollable-pane>}, {class <editable-pane>}, {class <pane>}, {class
<editing-mixin>}, {class <scrolling-mixin>}, {class <object>})


hannes
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