Re: [patch] add setdefault X

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:59:24PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Thursday 13 November 2003 16:57, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Since the default flag is already in stage2, do you think we could add the
> > onceonly flag in stage2 temporarily, untill we move all the "default stuff"
> > somewhere else?
> 
> No. Once you implement it in the official tree, it means that people start 
> using your code immediately. Then, if you revise the code again, it 
> introduces serious incompatibility. That's why it is very important to 
> discuss any new feature before implementing it actually.

Ok. I'll revisit this later when I get time to. The idea is that stage2
should only contain read-only code/data, right?

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)