Re: rfc - delay the parsing of system components

>> 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.)


The question reduces to whether or not this is a different species. I  
don't think it is. Richard correctly points out that my proposal might  
cause problems in the "wild" but there is no evidence for this  
(yet...). To my mind, I've kept the same syntax and ASDF does the same  
operations in the same order (at least in as much as ASDF ever did the  
same things in the same order...). The only change is that instead of  
planning everything before executing, ASDF would now execute as it  
went. I don't see this as incompatible. Do you?

thanks,
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