[pro] When to use SLOT-VALUE...

[Scott L. Burson]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Pascal Costanza <pc at p-cos.net> wrote:

>
> Note that it is always possible to have several accessors with different
> names. So you could define something like this:
>
> (defclass foo ()
>   ((some-slot :reader official-slot-reader :accessor
> %internal-slot-accessor) ...))
>
>
I like this, actually, because it warns the reader that although the slot is
not to be written by clients, it may nonetheless change; the client mustn't
assume it's constant.  Personally I think this is better than using
SLOT-VALUE, unless the only time it's written is for initialization.

-- Scott
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