out of curiosity, what do you have so far from the usual topics?

You can read the draft so far at

http://fare.tunes.org/files/cs/poof/ltuo.html

The XXX show you where I'm editing, currently at chapter 9.

 

> > Are there good motivational examples that fit in a couple of pages? And/or are there good free software or source-available programs and libraries that are worth citing and sending my readers to, to illustrate the power and interest of those techniques?

I've made a few examples on my blog:
https://turtleware.eu/posts/Method-Combinations.html    -- couple of method combinations
https://turtleware.eu/posts/Proxy-Generic-Function.html -- proxying function methods to another generic function
https://turtleware.eu/posts/Dynamic-Vars---Return-of-the-Jedi.html -- thread-local variables ala ContextL

Nice stuff, thanks. I might reference that once I discuss the MOP.

Timothy Moore came up with a clever way to parametrize standard classes in McCLIM:
https://www.jucs.org/jucs_14_20/an_implementation_of_clim/jucs_14_20_3358_3369_moore.pdf

What are good papers to cite about CLIM in general?

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