Re: Make register easier to hook

[Leo]

On 2011-03-29 01:37 +0800, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Thanks for doing this work.  An extensible register system is also on my
> wishlist.  Why did you decide to use the list for the register structure
> instead of the default vector representation?

Probably because it looks nicer inside register-alist and there is
little performance to lose.

> Also, have you considered eliminating the `info' slot? Users can
> construct closures over any necessary variables and assign these
> closures to the register structure's remaining function slots. After
> all, we're getting lexbind, and this feature will make constructing
> closures both easy and safe.

Now I do. But I fail to see how that makes things more convenient. The
closures must be created inside the command/function that creates the
register, right? So one won't be able to define functions with defun for
the slots. Did I miss something?

Leo