[Chicken-janitors] Re: #32: get tinyclos egg for chicken 4 to work

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#32: get tinyclos egg for chicken 4 to work
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 Reporter:  felix       |       Owner:       
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  major       |   Milestone:       
Component:  extensions  |     Version:  4.0.5
 Keywords:  tinyclos    |  
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Comment(by felix):

 Replying to [comment:1 tonysidaway]:
 > Is anybody else looking at this?  I don't yet understand the innards of
 this very complex code.
 >

 I haven't looked for a while. Yes, the code is a horrible mess, I don't
 understand it myself anymore. I actually would throw it away, and replace
 it with a generic-function library written from scratch, but many people
 have used tinyclos and having it at least working would be good.

 > tinyclos-examples.scm flops over because, I think, the initialize
 generic is getting a bogus call-next-method chain.
 >
 > Changing "(##core-global-ref ,name)" to ",name" in define-method seems
 to help.  Then all you have to do to stop define-method complaining during
 ensure-generic is to insert "(define-generic X)" before every reference to
 define-method.
 >
 > Then it goes into a black hole and you have to kill the process...
 >
 > I don't understand how module namespaces work in Chicken so I'm
 completely mystified by the whole thing.  Is there documentation that
 might help?

 No, not really - only the comments in the code. The thing *did* work, and
 I have absolutely no idea why it doesn't now.

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