[Sbcl-devel] Re: Attempt at a patch for bug 127

[William H. N. <wil...@ai...>]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:12:07AM +0000, Christophe Rhodes wrote:
> I don't think so... I would have thought that A:FOO-A is the accessor
> that would be usable to access both S1s and S2s, (and also frankly that
> anyone who's programming like this probably deserves to lose :-)... I
> certainly think that automagic importing of definitions would be a very
> bad thing.

I agree. My understanding of this one hypothetical feature, which I
think matches Christophe's -- where the app programmer can execute a
sequence of DEFSTRUCTs and then discover that, as a side-effect,
package system side effects like IMPORT have been caused -- sounds
to me like it's a bug.

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