Hi Doug:

in your thesis you jump too quickly into Scheme.
You say that the two main ingredients are open classes
and predicate dispatch and then you switch into 
Scheme mode of explanation.

Please give a more detailed high-level description
of a Socrates-like programming language, before referring
to your Scheme prototype. Such a language has 
messages, decision points,
classes, branches (replaces methods and advice), etc.

This description might be 2 or 3 pages but it 
describes the key ideas behind Socrates without mixing
them with Scheme issues: proper separation of concerns.

-- Karl
Sep. 2, 2004