[cdr-discuss] Three RFCs

[Pascal Costanza]

On 18 Mar 2008, at 15:39, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:

>> Also, changes in implementations have been known to contain bugs,
>> hence by forcing the changes to be to cl:case, we are going to
>> potentially affect existing code bases, for no discernible gain.
>
> That's why regression tests exist...

The advantage of not requiring cl:case to change would be that you  
could add this CDR as a plain library, which if you define as a change  
of cl:case itself, you would have to wait for implementors to "catch  
up."

My suggestion would be to keep this open, or specify it in such a way  
that both options are possible. (It could be cl-ext:case, which you  
could then shadow-import, but where an implementor could easily  
support it directly as well.)


Pascal

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