On 2010-04-15, at 22:26 , Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: > Who uses it?
depends on what one means by "uses it"? the value in the respective slot is more-or-less central to the dependency computation and is initialized in the instantiation process[1]. once it plays that role, is there any reason to not place the initarg in the interface? > > Out of 291 packages, the only uses seem to be > - Defining TEST-OP operations (greate majority) > - In a few tests, it solves a wrong ordering of files > - In two, it deactivates operations by using FEATURE (obscure way > to do it) > > The "paradigmatic" example of McClim cited here > http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf.html#Common-attributes- > of-components > does not have a single occurrence of this word. > > The question is thus, is it really needed? [1] : http://tinyurl.com/y37qr69 _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
