I don't know CL that well myself, but I think the convention is to use + for constants (i.e. defconst) where * is used for global variables (i.e. defparameter). In that case the + convention doesn't really make sense in clojure as it doesn't have any notion of a constant reference type.
--Darren On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Chouser <chou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Mark Volkmann > <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I think that's supposed to be + instead of *, at least Common Lisp >> seems to use +. > > I meant * -- I don't know CL at all, but the *asterisk* form is used > frequently in clojure.core, while no +plus+ form ever appears. I also > was careful to refer to the global nature of the Vars, not anything > about const-ness. > > --Chouser > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---