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

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

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

Martin> What are you talking about???

Overloading the existing procedures without providing explicit
FILE-INFO:... accessors exposes the fact that these properties aren't
fields of FILE-INFO; therefore we should provide them.  If we do
provide them, what's the point of overloading the others?

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Cheers =8-} M.
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