Note to myself

[Robert Goldman]

I have a note to myself to remove SOURCE-FILE-TYPE from the manual, and
I see that it's there just for backwards compatibility.

Am I correct in saying that this should be replaced by COMPONENT-TYPE?
That's what the comment says, but then I see this:

  (defmethod source-file-type ((component file-component) (system
parent-component))
    (file-type component)))

which suggests FILE-TYPE, not COMPONENT-TYPE is The Right Thing.

Also, what the heck is the return type of this?  I see the following:

  (defmethod source-file-type ((component parent-component) (system
parent-component))
    :directory)

which suggests that it's something like (or string (eql :directory)).
Ugh.  Shouldn't asking for the file-type of a PARENT-COMPONENT simply be
an error?


Sorry to bother you about this: just trying to kill something that's
languished on my todo list for more than a year.

cheers,
r