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Re: featurep
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: featurep |
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Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:19:22 -0500 |
> > 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
Yes, that was my intention.
> and that has never been the intention.
No, indeed, I understand that it is way past any immediate concern
and as I said, I have no clue how to implement such a thing.
> > 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?
Why does it matter ?
What would the code look like using your :feature thing ?
Most likely your code can handle a small fixed number of different
combination of features. It can use :feature to decide which one
of the alternatives to choose or it can just try them in order
until one of them succeeds.
I.e. I don't see how the "what would you try next" question is relevant
since the problem also shows up with :feature.
> In any case, I disagree, but I don't want to be religious about this,
> so I'll change the code to use featurep.
Is it even necessary ?
I expect that "try-it-and-see" will already catch all relevant cases.
I'm really not convinced that we need anything more, so I wouldn't
bother with anything more until there's some evidence that it
is needed. Of course, maybe you have that evidence, but I haven't seen it.
Stefan
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
Re: featurep, Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/22