Re: Adding a generic function layer inside OPERATE

Richard M Kreuter <[email protected]> writes:

> At present, there's no obvious way to run code :before or :around
> system-level actions other than wrapping operate/oos [1].  Would
> anybody object to adding a generic function layer between
> instantiation of the operation and system and the carrying out of the
> perform calls?  A patch to that effect follows, though the generic
> function name in the patch is pretty lousy.

I don't claim to have thought about this much, but...

 * perform-using-system might not be a bad idea -- no comments
   on the implementation or feasibility without getting hackish.

 * I recall Dan having said something about how the current way
   of first traversing and then operating was a hack done to
   circumvent the Clisp lack of custom method combinations --
   which it now has. (This is more of a historical note then
   anything else: I think a change at that level would be best
   left for YASDF, ASDF2, or whatever.)

Cheers,

  -- Nikodemus              Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
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