Re: Class methods in GOOPS

[Andreas Rottmann]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> It seems there are no class methods in GOOPS. Is this a deliberate
> omission, or were they just overlooked? If this is old hat, please point
> me to a URL somewhere, I couldn't find any.
>
What I did to work around this was to make the classes that should
have "class methods" (static methods in C++) have a metaclass, then
you can specialize methods on the metaclass; e.g:

(use-modules (oop goops))

(define-class <A-meta> ())
(define-class <B-meta> ())

(define-class <A> ()
  #:metaclass <A-meta>)

(define-class <B> ()
  #:metaclass <B-meta>)

(define-method (class-method (class <A-meta>) (msg <string>))
  (format #t "I am a static method of class A: ~S\n" msg))


(define-method (class-method (class <B-meta>) (msg <string>))
  (format #t "I am a static method of class B: ~S\n" msg))

(class-method <A> "Hello world")
(class-method <B> "Hello world")


> Thanks for any insight,
>
HTH, Andy.

Regards, Andy
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