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Re: featurep
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: featurep |
Date: |
20 Mar 2002 00:09:29 +0100 |
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"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
> > address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> >
> > > However, for a usage point of view, I don't really see why it
> > > matters, and IMHO, using featurep will be _less_ intuitive.
> > > For example, I think using
> > >
> > > (if (and (make-network-process :feature :family 'local)
> > > (make-network-process :feature :datagram t))
> >
> > Having make-network-process doing something other than making a
> > network process is not a more intuitive solution than featurep.
>
> Agreed. I also agree that `featurep' is not a perfect answer, tho.
> Ideally, what I'd like is something like
>
> (featuredp '(make-network-process :family 'local))
>
> where `featuredp' simply takes a function together with a set of
> arguments and returns whether or not that call is "supported".
> It would first check the fboundness of the function, the number of arguments
> and all those things.
I think this would be overkill. If we go that route, then it should
apply to all functions - and that has never been the intention.
>
> But I have no good idea how to go about implementing this thing, so
> as a first step, I think that it should be good enough just to make
> `make-network-process' fail when called with arguments requiring
> unsupported features. After all, it's generally the case that if
> the feature is supported, then we do want to make the function call,
> so we might as well call the function and see if it worked.
Ok, but if you combine :family 'local and :datagram t, and
make-network-process returns nil, you really don't know whether it's
because it doesn't support local sockets or datagrams -- so what would
you try next?
In any case, I disagree, but I don't want to be religious about this,
so I'll change the code to use featurep.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
Re: featurep, Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/19
Re: featurep, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/21
Re: featurep, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/21
Re: featurep, Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/21
Re: featurep, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/21