Re: Interactive hat.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The ability to use a symbol property for that is a hack that can come
>> in handy at times, but it's still just a hack.

> I don't think so.  It is the standard canonical use of symbol
> properties.  A quick bit of grepping reveals 4278 uses of `put'.  Of the
> ones in the first 100 or so, they all look recording properties of the
> function rather than the symbol itself.

And they're all hacks (some of them a bit less so because the property
is actually installed as part of the symbol's definition (I'm thinking
of the `declare' thingy in macros used to set the indent and edebug
properties).


        Stefan