Re: [elephant-devel] What to use, what not to use...

2009-10-18 Thread Ian Eslick
Derived index slots have been around for quite some time (before 0.5 and 0.6 at least). I'm surprised coverage of them isn't in the manual. The interface changed a few years ago (they are now defined in the slot defs and not subject to dynamic addition/removal). However they were broken

[elephant-devel] What to use, what not to use...

2009-10-18 Thread Alain Picard
Dear Pachyderm lovers, I'm noticing that the manual describes "derived slot indices", however I can find no tests or example usage of these. Conversely, I can find a test for what appears to be a very cool feature: ":associate" type slots (in testassociations.lisp) but can find no mention of the

Re: [elephant-devel] Bug in GET-CON

2009-10-18 Thread Alain Picard
"Leslie P. Polzer" writes: > But STORE-CONTROLLER is not a persistent class, so that's neither > needed nor possible. Doh!! :-) -- Please read about why Top Posting is evil at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting and http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/usenet/guide/faq_topp.html Please read

Re: [elephant-devel] Bug in GET-CON

2009-10-18 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
Hi Alain, I just pushed your patch. You wrote: > I understand that perfectly, which is why I was happy to provide > a new patch. No harm done. It's just that I've forced everone > on my team for 10 years to use the same .emacs file, so there's > never any "empty" or "meaningless" white space