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felix winkelmann scripsit:
> What about:
>
> (message-box <title> <prompt> [<config-object>]) ?
>
> Configuration-objects could be composed, inherited,
> modified by accessors, whatever. I claim such an interface is
> cleaner, possibly less verbose and likely to be more efficient.
And you have the rest of the field behind you, which has long ago
abandoned zillions-of-arguments designs in favor of:
(let ((m (make-message-box)))
(message-box-title-set! m <title>)
(message-box-prompt-set! m <prompt)
...
(message-box-bgcolor-set! m <color>)
...
(message-box-show m))
except less verbosely, thanks to pervasive inclusion polymorphism.
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