Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Le 09/07/2015 20:30, Ethan Furman a écrit :
> 
> That doesn't feel like a consenting-adults attitude, and could also
make testing harder.

Testing of what? The point is that it's the authority providing the
generic function which decides how lenient extending the generic
function is. That sounds rather reasonable to me...

> I prefer adding an option to the register method, and move towards
> making the default be "don't allow".

But that default won't happen, for the compatibility reasons already
explained.

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