0:31:51makomoi'm reading the cleavir pdf which says that, for LEXICAL-VARIABLE-INFO for example, the only property one has to guarantee about :identity is that it's (obviously) always the same object for a lexical variable of the same name
0:32:14makomoso it's used internally by Cleavir to link certain stuff together i guess?
0:38:31Bikecleavir doesn't deal with the identity at all, except for lexical variables where it put in the identity itself
0:38:31makomoi didn't build it myself, i just guessed the URL lol metamodular.com/cleavir.pdf :-)
0:42:37makomook. i'll come back to it tomorrow. time to get some sleep
0:42:50makomolooks like my message from earlier today also didn't get through, weird...
0:42:58makomobeach: typo: p. 5, "Client code would then typically provide auxiliary methods or *overriding* primary methods (...)", http://metamodular.com/cleavir.pdf
0:43:29makomobeach: also note the above about the initarg being required -- old versions of the document?
10:33:45makomobeach: i was wondering what the internal purpose of that initarg was. Bike told me that lexical variables for example use the lexical-ast as the identity
10:34:16makomobut i was just curious what internal purpose that serves. i was reading metamodular.com/cleavir.pdf and the only guarantee that the user has to make is that always the same object is passed as the :identity argument