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NAME

       goo, g2c - generic object-orientator (programming language)

SYNOPSIS

       goo
       g2c

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the goo and g2c commands.

       goo  and g2c interactively evaluate statements in GOO, a dynamic, type-
       based, object-oriented language in the same family as Dylan and Scheme.
       The   language   is   designed  to  be  simple,  productive,  powerful,
       extensible, dynamic, efficient, and real-time.

       goo and g2c support two evaluation modes, controlled by the environment
       variable  GOO_EVAL_MODE;  the two commands differ only in which mode is
       the default.  In ast mode (short for "abstract syntax  tree",  and  the
       default  for  goo), they directly interpret parsed goo expressions.  In
       g2c mode (the default for g2c), they instead translate expressions into
       dynamically compiled C code.

OPTIONS

       None.

USAGE

       Typing  goo  or  g2c  at your shell will start up a goo read-eval-print
       loop, which accepts s-expressions  and  top-level  commands  commencing
       with a comma.  The following is a list of available commands:

       ,quit  Exit the program.

       ^C (control-C)
              Invoke a recursive read-eval-print loop.

       ,g2c-eval
              Change to dynamic compilation evaluation.

       ,ast-eval
              Change to ast evaluation.

       ,in ,name
              Change to module name.

ENVIRONMENT

       GOO_EVAL_MODE
              Determines  evaluation mode, as documented in DESCRIPTION above.

       GOO_ROOT
              Installation root (/usr on  Debian  systems);  files  needed  at
              runtime can be found under ${GOO_ROOT}/lib/goo.

SEE ALSO

       The   full   GOO  reference  manual:  /usr/share/doc/goo/goo.pdf.gz  or
       /usr/share/doc/goo/manual/goomanual.html .

AUTHOR

       goo was written by Jonathan Bachrach.

       This manual page was written by Aaron M.  Ucko  <ucko@debian.org>,  for
       the  Debian  project based on Jonathan’s documentation (but may be used
       by others).

                                  2005-08-04