And of course after I post this the original finally posts, sorry about that, should have waited longer.
Chris G On Nov 3, 3:05 pm, Kelsin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, I posted this a little while ago and it doesn't seem to have > posted so I'm reposting. If this comes through twice I'm sorry for > double posting. > > My first question is about the form: (:ant @p) > > How does :ant get to be used as a verb? Do all keywords expand to > (@p :ant) if @p is a map or something like that? Couldn't find any > reference to this on the site or group but I also don't know exactly > what to call it so searches may have been doomed to fail from the > start. > > My second question is about the send-off calls. When starting the > program you can refer to animate by the symbol alone. Inside the agent > function itself you need to refer to it as #'animate. Is this because > animate isn't bound in the current thread but is root bound? If that's > the case, why is this done rather than have this type of lookup be > automatic? What is the problem with just the symbol name being used > and using the root binding if the current thread doesn't have a > binding (Obviously this question means nothing if I wrongly assumed > why you need to use #' in the first place). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
