Hello all, If you know GOOPS, then you know that we have classes, rooted at <class>. And indeed <class> shows up a lot in documentation and in code. But that's not how it is in CLOS: our <class> corresponds to their `standard-class'. They have a superclass, called `class', which is the real root, and from which e.g. structure classes are derived.
We need to do this. Currently, class-of on a struct/record data type gives a useless class that can't instantiate instances, doesn't know its slots, and does not reflect the vtable hierarchy. So we need a <basic-class>, interposed between <class> and <object>, which will be the real root of our class meta-object hierarchy. I noticed this while fixing some weak hash table-related bugs today, and I saw set-struct-vtable-name!, which ends up causing some crazy stuff to happen (exporting a stub class from (oop goops)), and noticed how wrong all this was. Comments? Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
