Re: refs implement IFn, atoms and agents do not?

2009-10-04 Thread Stephen C. Gilardi
On Oct 3, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Stuart Halloway wrote: Is there a principled reason for this? I have written some code that (unintentionally) limits itself to refs because it assumes that all reference types can sit in function position. This discussion:

Re: refs implement IFn, atoms and agents do not?

2009-10-04 Thread Stephen C. Gilardi
On Oct 4, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote: Minor technicality ... Vars are a reference type, but deref and @ don't work with them. I'm guessing you're thinking of an interaction like this: user= (def a 3) #'user/a user= @a java.lang.ClassCastException:

Re: refs implement IFn, atoms and agents do not?

2009-10-04 Thread Mark Volkmann
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi squee...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 4, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote: Minor technicality ... Vars are a reference type, but deref and @ don't work with them. I'm guessing you're thinking of an interaction like this:        user= (def

refs implement IFn, atoms and agents do not?

2009-10-03 Thread Stuart Halloway
Is there a principled reason for this? I have written some code that (unintentionally) limits itself to refs because it assumes that all reference types can sit in function position. Thanks, Stu --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are