Re: Slot accessing issues in EIEIO

[Jonas Bernoulli]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> Recently, I'm reading the source of
>>>> closql(https://github.com/emacscollective/closql), A Emacs sqlite database 
>>>> ORM
>>>> package. It use eieio object, and put a piece of advice on eieio-oref to
>>>> intercept the reading slot action.
>>>
>>> Yuck!  Can you explain why they need an advice on `eieio-oref`?
>>
>> A right.  That's one of the reasons I never bothered to get eieio
>> changed to better accommodate my extension; I expected a negative
>> reaction like this.
>
> Note the "Yuck" is about putting an advice on such a core function.
> Not about the functionality that it provides (over which I don't have
> an opinion yet since I don't know what it does).
>
> IOW the "yuck" is saying "please request an extension so it can be
> better accomodated" ;-)

Okay understood.  I guess I was feeling a bit insecure about having
written a ORMish thing in first place, and was a bit over sensitive
because of that.  ;D