[wp-hackers] Filters on get_posts()

[scribu]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>wrote:

> On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:50 AM, scribu wrote:
> > Context is already provided: the wp_query object itself. This was only
> > introduced in WP 2.9 so most plugins still have to catch up.
>
>  A binary property like 'caller_get_posts'  cannot capture the infinite
> number of potential contexts in which WP_Query could be called.  We need
> something more.
>

Ok, and how would that "something more" look like? Something that couldn't
already be captured in WP_Query.