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Arguments and values to get.
- To: Common-Lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- Subject: Arguments and values to get.
- From: Gregor.pa@Xerox.ARPA
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1985 20:39:00 -0000
- Cc: cl-object-oriented-programming@su-ai.ARPA
- Sender: bobrow.pa@Xerox.ARPA
This (admittedly minor) question came up while we were writing up some
of the CommonLoops metaclass protocols.
Why does Common-Lisp GET take a default-value argument instead of
returning a second value indicating whether the property actually
exists?
Originally we had wanted to make CommonLoops' internal slot-access
function return a second value saying whether or not the slot-existed
but we ended up changing it to be more like GET.