Re: CLOSifying port/net.lisp

[<jm...@st...>]

Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> writes:

> I would like to switch to CLOS in clocc/src/port/net.lisp.
> This means that both SOCKET and SOCKET-SERVER will be CLOS classes
> and all functions operating on them will be generic.
> 
> SOCKET will be extending both FUNDAMENTAL-INPUT-STREAM and
> FUNDAMENTAL-OUTPUT-STREAM Gray streams, so if your lisp doesn't
> support them, you lose [this means GCL and CCL].
> 
> Does anyone think this would be a wrong design decision?
> Any comments are very welcome.
> [you have to respond until Monday to prevent the change from going in].

How would a closified net.lisp be better?

-- 
John M. Adams