[tbnl-devel] Re: Web programming question

[Edi Weitz]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 13:12:57 +0200, Toby <tobia.conforto at linux.it> wrote:

> Otherwise, if the main list is mutating all the time, one way to do
> it is: 1. make a (shallow? deep?) copy of the main list; 2. use the
> copy to generate the links; 3. store the copy in a session variable;
> 4. use the session variable in the receiving handler.

Doing this with sessions is a good idea IMHO.  I've done something
similar myself several times.  You can even create something like
"private" (encoded) links which translate to arbitrary Lisp code and
keep a table which translates from URLs to the corresponding actions
in your session.