"Leslie P. Polzer" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Jan 13, 12:09 pm, Jan Rychter <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Well, what I did with my code was almost a search-replace, you basically
>> need to:
>
> Good, this will serve as a migration guide that will accompany the
> next release.
>
>> What I initially wanted was to have a (setf (my-children x) children)
>> and (my-children x) thing, which would automatically determine the type
>> of x and use it as a key. It might be possible to do and it would make
>> the interface somewhat nicer -- but I'd still want to keep the
>> {get|set}-children-of-type methods, because I have widgets that maintain
>> two or three lists of children
>
> So are you going to implement this convenience interface?
> I would like to have this.

Could be done -- but I'd rather first finish the discussion with
Stephen, as his approach might turn out to be better and the whole issue
might become moot :-)

[...]
> Yeah, let's worry about it later.
>
>> You can supply arguments to (setf) functions?
>
> Works fine around here. ;)

Oh -- the 'place' form can take optional arguments -- I didn't know
that. That could indeed be used.

> How about the tests? Have you written tests for your new nav system
> and/or adapted the current tests?

No, of course not -- there is no point unless we agree on the general
design. If I spend time on fixing/writing tests now, and my design never
gains any acceptance, the effort would be wasted.

--J.

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