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From: u.bielz@timb.dinoco.de (Uwe Bielz)
Subject: Re: xlisp-stat prototypes
To: frost@galileo.phys.washington.edu
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In-Reply-To: frost@galileo.phys.washington.edu's message of 02 Jun 1995 18:18:16 GMT
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 21:54:41 GMT


In article <FROST.95Jun2111817@galileo.phys.washington.edu>
frost@galileo.phys.washington.edu (Keith Frost) writes:

> Is the xlisp-stat object system thoroughly documented anywhere? The
> tutorial gives some examples of using existing objects and
> prototypes, but not programming new ones. Any help?

I worked with xlisp-stat for a while back in 1992, using a book
written by the xlisp-stat author, Luke Tierney:

	LISP-STAT
	An Object-Oriented Environment
	for Statistical Computing
	and Dynamic Graphics

	ISBN 0-471-50916-7

It was published in 1990 by John Wiley & Sons.

The book contains a chapter on object oriented programming with
xlisp-stat, in which creating new objects and prototypes is covered,
too.

Since it is much older than the most recent xlisp-stat release I've
seen on a sunsite mirror (xlispstat2.1R2.tar.gz from Jul 2, 1993),
there might be some difference between the actual implementation of
the object system, and it's description in the book.

Hope it helps
  Uwe

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