Any mechanism for dispatching on :type metadata?

[greglook]

Any mechanism for dispatching on :type metadata?

[greglook]

Hmm, an interesting use case. I'm not entirely opposed to this, but it is a non-trivial change. TaggedValue has two 'accessor' methods, so we'd have to replace it with a multimethod which returned a two-element vector instead, like ['foo "bar"].

I've been considering splitting out the tagged-literal wiring into a separate mini-library anyway, which would be a good opportunity for this change as well.

[gfredericks]

The other logical possibility is two multimethods. Not sure what the tradeoffs are.

[greglook]

I don't really like that approach, it seems like everything would have to be duplicated twice. You could use a macro to reduce the boilerplate, but still feels off to me.

[greglook]

I've been playing around with this recently, I'll push a branch soon with some test changes.

[gfredericks]

Cool; I had played around with it too but I think I didn't end up changing my normal dev configuration because of the plugin/dependency two-step deployment hassle. But I think it seemed to work.