RE: Project update

Nuzzo Art-CINT116 <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:24:05 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lisa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> 
> I'm debating the future of DEFTEMPLATE. One could argue that 
> templates 
> really aren't necessary in LISA because they really don't 
> save much vis 
> a vis DEFCLASS; perhaps a bit of performance over class instances 
> during inferencing. I'm leaning towards deprecating 
> DEFTEMPLATE unless 
> someone offers a compelling reason to keep it.
> 

I would tend to agree for new development but by keeping it might 
make it easier port something written in Clips to LISA.  So my thought 
would be to keep it unless it adds a lot of overhead for you and/or the 
code. (I'm not sure if that's a compelling enough reason to keep it.)





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