[hunchentoot-devel] Request methods suffixed with * -- not backwards compatible?

Chaitanya Gupta mail at chaitanyagupta.com
Wed Sep 3 16:19:45 UTC 2008


Edi Weitz wrote:
>
> The idea is that all the relevant objects (request, replies, servers)
> are CLOS objects (which is already the case) and exported (which isn't
> the case now) so that you can subclass them and write your own methods
> which override the default behaviour.  This is not possible with
> functions like, say, the current REQUEST-METHOD that only have
> optional parameters.  In the future, REQUEST-METHOD (with a required
> parameter) will be a generic function while REQUEST-METHOD* (with an
> optional parameter like now) will just be a "convenience layer", if
> you so will.

That makes things a little clearer. Thanks.

I'll be looking forward to how this turns out.

Cheers,
Chaitanya




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