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authorMarius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>2006-02-13 21:42:41 +0000
committerMarius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>2006-02-13 21:42:41 +0000
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(Object Properties): Removed confusing
paragraph about 'name' property.
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@@ -181,13 +181,6 @@ Scheme object even though that object does not have a dedicated slot
available in which the additional information could be stored. Object
properties allow you to do just that.
-An object property is most commonly used to associate one kind of
-additional information with each instance of a class of similar Scheme
-objects. For example, all procedures have a `name' property, which
-stores the name of the variable in which the procedure was stored by a
-@code{define} expression, or @code{#f} if the procedure wasn't created
-by that kind of expression.
-
Guile's representation of an object property is a procedure-with-setter
(@pxref{Procedures with Setters}) that can be used with the generalized
form of @code{set!} (REFFIXME) to set and retrieve that property for any