Interestingly, I wanted to get rid of it and/or refactor how this thing is done, particularly so to make ASDF and POIU play nicer with each other. Sigh. Note that I'm currently refactoring TRAVERSE. Because it was taking 2 minutes to process the qres-sbcl-xne.asd generated by XCVB, what with O(n^3) algorithms and worse. Will release 1.700 when it's done. [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] It's possible to program a computer in English. It's also possible to make an airplane controlled by reins and spurs. — John McCarthy On 15 April 2010 16:40, james anderson <james.anderson@setf.de> wrote:
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
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