24 Feb
2010
24 Feb
'10
3:34 p.m.
On 2/24/10 Feb 24 -9:22 AM, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info writes:
Actually, &allow-other-keys would not be necessary if these weren't normal functions but generic functions. Then methods can add valid keywords. And there's a programmatic protocol to get at all valid keywords.
[THESE == load-system, etc.]
I'd favor that approach.
I don't see how generic functions would help here, since typically we are going to be calling these functions on strings or on symbols, not on system objects.
Best, r