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Oh my, the asdf:around fiasco again. ABCL apparently uses an old version of ASDF to avoid a lot DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION.

Couldn't we instead just have a do-perform function do the wrapping stuff and call perform gf, and skip that method-combination complication?

Is there a good reason to use this method-combination protocol? Does anyone rely on either defining asdf:around methods or on calling perform directly and having it do the restart magic?

A lot of people use the Stale Fasl recipe at

http://www.cliki.net/asdf

which was the reason that prompted introducing the custom method combination.

I certainly want to support this kind of recipe. I believe wrapping the one call to perform in a do-perform generic function that handles the restarts the way the asdf:around method currently does will provide this functionality.

Long form of D-M-C is in the works for ABCL from what I know.

Well, I suppose we can wait a bit. If by the time we're done documenting 2.0 they still have no deadline for D-M-C, we can think about removing it.

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