Re: Guile, CORBA and GNOME

[Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at thalamus dot nada dot kth dot se>]

Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnu.org> writes:

> > >    So, I would like to know if someone is interested in working on
> > > adding CORBA support to Guile, and a good, solid foundation exists
> > > that can be taken as a reference. 
> > 
> > I'm interested in doing this, but I lack spare time. Still, I'll /try/
> > to cut into it. Maybe. Sometime. :)
> 
> Also, I have heard about a new object system for Guile, using this
> would be an extra bonus ;-)

(I'm working on GOOPS.)

Yes, I think it's a very good idea to involve GOOPS.  I should say
that I haven't studied CORBA yet, but in GOOPS it's quite easy to
create proxy objects where slot access leads to arbitrary actions such
as communication with the real object.  This seems useful for CORBA.