On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Peter Seibel peter@gigamonkeys.com wrote:
Hey, you're the guy who took out the special variable. ;-)
I blame it on Hans... :)
I agree with your new position--it's more useful to be able to change the behavior of a running server to choose between logging, ignoring, or debugging errors just by setting a variable. Whether it's in a slot or special variable doesn't matter a ton. Though I could imagine cases where a special variable would be handy--you could change the policy in one piece of application code without affecting others.
At the handler level it wouldn't be possible. Right now, I don't think a special variable would buy you more flexibility given the Hunchentoot architecture. But I've been wrong before... :)