Re: what happened to force ?

I agree that &allow-other-keys is easier and less frangible.

thanks,

On May 30, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Christophe Rhodes wrote:

> Gary King <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I know that its semantics and use are a bit fishy but what  
>> happened to
>>
>>> (operate ... :force ...)
>>
>> Unless I hear otherwise, I'm going to change the defun for operate to
>>
>>> (defun operate (operation-class system &rest args &key (verbose t)
>>> version force)
>
> Maybe (... &rest args &key (verbose t) version &allow-other-keys) is
> less high-maintenance?  (Until :version came along, it was simply
> (... &rest args); I think the intent is that the rest of the args get
> propagated to the make-instance call, and since users can define their
> own operation classes we shouldn't be restricting the initargs that
> those operations can accept.  (See also the shared-initialize :after
> method on OPERATION)
>
>>>                     :force force
>
> You wouldn't need this, either, even with your version; it's part of
> ARGS.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christophe


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