Re: Library defaults

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov> writes:

>> So it's really: Make the defaults developer-friendly or source code
>> friendly?  Because all calls from applications will end up looking like
>>
>> (with-url ("http..." :cookies t
>>                      :cache t
>>                      :verbose 0)
>>    ...)
>>
>> And that's kinda sad, too.
>
> No, they should end up looking like
>
> (with-url ("http..." :cookies client4--cookies
>                      :cache client4--cache)
>   ...)

Yes, major applications would look like that.  (Or really -- eww would
implement a function that would bar "third party cookies" etc according
to user settings.)

But not all clients are larger applications like that, and for those
choosing the wrong defaults would result in slightly sad-looking code.

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