Robert Goldman <rpgold...@sift.net> wrote: > Why would that be a win over just calling FORMATTED-VERSION on demand? > > I.e., we could just provide something like > > (defgeneric FORMATTED-VERSION (C &optional version) > (:method ((COMPONENT C) &optional version) > (or version (component-version c))) > > and then the programmer could extend this as needed.
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