Re: Proposal: make asdf output go to *standard-output*

Richard M Kreuter <[email protected]> writes:

> Also, for completeness,
>
> (4) The oddball explain-op class is made extra screwy by the above:
>     :verbose nil makes asdf:perform on direct instances of explain-op
>     into no-ops, and subclasses of explain-op that don't either break
>     package system encapsulation or depend on asdf internals can't
>     rely on superclass's methods doing anything.  (Probably the method
>     of asdf:perform that specializes on instances of asdf:explain-op
>     should print to *standard-output* directly, rather than to
>     asdf:*verbose-out*, but that's a separate issue that I don't care
>     much about.)

Oops. asdf:explain isn't a class, but a generic function.
Nevertheless, extensions that would add methods to explain don't have
access to *verbose-out*.

--
RmK


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