Faré scripsit: > In any case, in my years of tending to build issues > for the Common Lisp community, I have found that > all these introspection items from SRFI-112 are purely cosmetic,
This is meant to be a cosmetic API: that is, it is used to provide useful information in logs and suchlike places. It's not meant to be programmatically useful. > Sounds good, except for the part where a list is used. Lists are so > 1970s. Even worse when you cannot expect them not to be side-effected. Eh. You aren't going to look at the (features) list throughout the code, just at startup, when you can cache the things you care about. > Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that > you do it. > — Gandhi Nice. "It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it." --R. Tarfon in _Pirkei Avot_ -- John Cowan [email protected] "Not to know The Smiths is not to know K.X.U." --K.X.U. _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
