Daniel A. Steffen wrote:
>  How do I create a metaclass destructor though (without going through the 
>  root oo::object destructor as in my example)? wouldn't I need 
>  self.destructor? (or maybe I'm getting (meta)confused given the hour ;-)

oo::class create metaclass {
   superclass oo::class
   destructor { ... }
}
metaclass create ordinaryclass {
   ...
}
ordinaryclass create instance

>  this appears to be triggered by the fact that L is a subclass of the 
>  class to be mixed into (i.e. oo::object).
>  maybe mixing into oo::object needs to be made an exception for the 
>  TclOOIsReachable() check in TclOODefineMixinObjCmd()?

Umm, yes. Chalk that one up as a bug. Please file an issue report so I
remember to fix it. :-)

>  when mixing L into oo:class instead, the mixed-in destructor did not get 
>  called at class destruction, is it not possible to mixin destructors?

Not at the moment. Are you arguing that that's a bug? (I can fix it if
you are... :-))

Donal.

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