Re: CLX draft 3 revisions

[Warren Harris <harris%hplwhh@hplabs.HP.COM>]

Thanks for your response.  I hadn't thought about accessors like
HEIGHT differing by their units, but differing in concept (e.g. one
application's generic-function DISPLAY which takes a window and
returns its associated display object, and another application's
DISPLAY which takes an object, and a stream and draws the object).  I
didn't really consider the former as requiring different accessors,
but the latter should obviously be separated by packages,
accessor-prefixes or individual names for the two operations.  My gut
feeling was that prefixes shouldn't be used unless needed because they
ruin the genericness of the accessor (why should I have separate
functions for ELM-TREE-HEIGHT, PERSON-HEIGHT and FONT-HEIGHT?).  But
perhaps you're right -- why confuse the user.

Warren