heads up (was: Re: Making guardians a module?)

[Michael Livshin]

Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Some thoughts about guardians:
> 
> With respect to guardians one should know, that guardians are not a very
> well thought out thing at all (IMO).  The interface is nice, but the
> semantics are quite strange.

I've just commited some changes that should give guardians more
intuitive semantics without (almost) breaking the interface.  Please
check it out and comment.  I'm especially concerned about naming and
clarity (or lack thereof) of the NEWS blurb.

thanks,
--mike, who hopes he's *done* with guardians for the time being,
'cause he's *sick* of them. ;)

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