Re: [Scsh-hackers] Saving calls to file-info

[sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Gasbichler <gasbichl@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> 
>>>>> writes:

>>>>> "Mike" == Michael Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

Martin> I think we can easily remedy this by allowing the mentioned procedures
Martin> to accept a file-info record as argument.

Mike> What's the good reason for overloading?  Why can't we just define
Mike> additional accessors for FILE-INFO?

Martin> It's heavily overloaded anyway, so why bother about one more?

Because adding worse to bad doesn't a good make :-)

More importantly, because it indirectly exposes the representation of
FILE-INFO even more than done through Olin's naming conventions for
records.

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