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>>>>> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

KG> Why is ELisp not object-oriented?

You can write OO code in any language.  I think nn* packages would
benefit much from being specified in a way that used and allowed
inheritance.  When I (attempted to) write nnsoup I constantly wanted
to be able to say "this is just like nnml, except...".  There is a lot
of duplication between the backends which could be avoided. 

nndir is actually written as a kind of subclass of nnmh, so you might
want to look at that.