Wow. I have no idea what happened with xotcl. My son was born about a month after I made that post; maybe that has something to do with it...
For my purposes I guess I wouldn't need an OO language per se as much as I just need a language that has the concept of an actual reference. Upvar is a poor substitute, but more importantly it still doesn't let you do things like store one hash inside another. It's really quite frustrating when you're building an object cache to have to split everything across 3 or 4 nsv arrays, using "array get|set," when every other language you've used for 10 years wouldn't inflict this on you...
I do enjoy TCL's minimalist style in general, but this particular corner of the language bugs me a lot.
