[hunchentoot-devel] asterisk

[Leslie P. Polzer]

Dmitri Hrapof wrote:

> why not
> instead of REQUEST-URI*
>
> use something like:
>
> (defclass request ()
>  ((uri)))
> (defgeneric request-uri (&optional req))
> (defmethod request-uri (&optional (req request))
>  (when (null req) ...
>
> though maybe sacrificing backwards-compatibility
> is better than writing all that :)

You would seriously subvert the essential meaning of methods,
i.e. being able to dispatch on their arguments.

How would you be able to support a custom subclass of
REQUEST wishing to specialize REQUEST-URI (and all
the other functions) then?

  Leslie

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