June 2007 Archives

ASDF(reference manual) is a fine piece of software: I like to use it, and find some of the design choices in it to be very good (besides, it’s the thing that has allowed things like clbuild and asdf-install to grow). However, it is now in wide enough use that people are looking at its internals and are scratching their heads when finding some not-so-very-good design choices.

Here’s a selection of the things that I think would be good candidates for review in a new version of ASDF (bsdf? yasdf? qwer? /.,m?):