Re: Useful code - perhaps worth modifying base distribution?

From: Moises Lejter <mlm_at_cs.brown.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 12:08:04 -0400

In article <199507311421.KAA16484_at_lager.BBN.COM>, Ken Anderson <kanderso_at_bbn.com> writes:

  Ken> I think a better solution is to modify define-class so that
  Ken> slot defintions are no longer a simple quoted list, but are
  Ken> computed in the lexical environment of the macro expansion.
  Ken> This would make the unsightly evals in compute-get-n-set
  Ken> unnecessary. In fact, now that i look at it, none of the evals
  Ken> should be necessary.

I like this solution better than mine. I just had thought it would be
much more complicated to write than mine was. On second thought,
perhaps I was mistaken. It might be good for people to hold off on
applying that patch of mine we are talking about for a bit... ;-)

Moises
Received on Mon Jul 31 1995 - 18:11:48 CEST