Re: rfc - delay the parsing of system components

Gary King <[email protected]> writes:

>> I think #2 is an at-least-in-theory incompatible change.  It might not
>> break anything in the wild, but that can't be known in advance.  It
>> might also lead to a better defsystem than ASDF, but I'm not sure that
>> ASDF should be breaking compatibility with itself at this point.
>
> Hmmm, evolve or die <smile>.

No problem with that, but biological taxonomists have learnt that it's
useful to give mutually-incompatible species different names.  Some
day, computer programmers might see the point of that, too.

(In other words: please do make code easier to write, but please also
give the resulting software a different name.)

Cheers,

Christophe

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