Re: Slot accessing issues in EIEIO

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Recently, I'm reading the source of
>>> closql(https://github.com/emacscollective/closql), A Emacs sqlite database 
>>> ORM
>>> package. It use eieio object, and put a piece of advice on eieio-oref to
>>> intercept the reading slot action.
>>
>> Yuck!  Can you explain why they need an advice on `eieio-oref`?
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
>
> A right.  That's one of the reasons I never bothered to get eieio
> changed to better accommodate my extension; I expected a negative
> reaction like this.

Note the "Yuck" is about putting an advice on such a core function.
Not about the functionality that it provides (over which I don't have
an opinion yet since I don't know what it does).

IOW the "yuck" is saying "please request an extension so it can be
better accomodated" ;-)


        Stefan