Faré <fahree@gmail.com> writes:
I request a slot called "properties" that can hold arbitrary key/value data.
If it's arbitrary, it's not usable from one system to the other, and thus serves no purpose.
I don't understand this, sorry. Imagine that there was a community desire to provide, in a system, the answer to the question "Where is the best place to go to report bugs for this system?" It is possible, today, to choose a key (or set of keys) for a property stored in the system, and for authors who wish to participate to adopt the convention, and for some tool to gather this information and provide it in a useful way. I don't see how this is not usable from one system to another. It does not require reader conditionalization, subclassing, or ASDF upgrades. It can be expanded and changed without expansions or changes to ASDF. It works with past versions of ASDF, present versions of ASDF, and until today, I thought it would work in future versions of ASDF. I'm not sure why this is an undesirable feature that must be removed from ASDF. Zach