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Roman Maeder's object oriented programming package is nice, but I'm hoping someone can suggest a sleek and novel implementation that is easy to use.

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Can you tell us more about what functionality of OOP you'd most like to implement in Mathematica? – Jagra Jun 6 '12 at 17:47
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OO is a moving target, as is nicely summarized here, so you first need to define which set of features you call OO (as noted already by @Jagra). Implementing some basic OO by itself is not very difficult, but you will face some pretty hard to solve problems, such as performance and garbage collection. In this answer, I dwell a little more on this topic and link to some previous discussions on the matter, which you may find of some interest. – Leonid Shifrin Jun 6 '12 at 19:38
Some interesting discussions in this topic can be found on MathGroup. Here is a recent one. – Jens Jun 6 '12 at 22:16

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Well, one obvious idea would be to build on the struct implementation by Bob Beretta. You would have to add information about methods and modify the implementation of --> to consider those as well, and for polymorphism, you'd also have to store the base class (or base classes, if multiple inheritance should be supported), and have --> look there if the field or method is not found.

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