Re: A MOP minimisation question

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11 Mar 2026, at 12:10, David McClain <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> So what are you really trying to say here?

You can do everything without CLOS (or without structures) of course: you could just write Scheme (for whichever RnRS didn't have record types). But sometimes they're convenient, often very convenient: there are wheels which are not worth reinventing.  And I am saying this as someone who finds some of CL's wheels so hideous to use that I have reinvented them.

In this case since I am going to use CLOS (because structures have too many precanned accessors), the question is (a) do I actually lose anything by using less MOP (as I said, I need some) and I suppose (b) would it be considered a smell to use less?

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