Yesterday, Robby Findler wrote: > This kind of thing has happened many times for other parts of the > system (the class system is a good example). We have generally tried > to avoid so much breakage and I think we should here. One technique > is to have a new name for the new version (or a new name for the old > one if that is more appropriate; that still breaks everything but > porting is very easy).
The problem here is that there is no name to change -- it's the implicit "coercion" of xexpr values to a response. On Saturday, Jay McCarthy wrote: > > I very much agree; I wonder if the single 'make-xexpr-response' will > be too much overhead. For the actual choice between the different representations, I think that it's enough to have one knob -- a "translation" function that takes in the content representation and converts it into a byte string (or maybe a list of them), or into a thunk that will be called with the current output going over the wire (and doing this implies chunked output). [Putting this knob on a parameter sounds a little bad in that it's global state, but it seems like a good way to maintain backward compatibility... Maybe have it default to a function that throws an error to make it less popular?] -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev