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                                             GOO(1)