I appreciate that they stand out.  Again, this is similar to the constants
conversation earlier, visually marking the intended use is a good habit,
IMHO.  Of course this doesn't mean that error-kit should define the base
error this way, but I intend to keep on wrapping my errors in earmuffs :)
David

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Chouser <chou...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:10 PM, samppi <rbysam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Small questions on error-kit—which I love and think that all clojure-
> > contrib libraries should use—why do defined errors such as *error*,
> > *number-error*, etc. have names surrounded by asterisks?
>
> Thanks for the endorsement!  Have you used continue or bind-continue
> yet?  These are the features I'm less certain about.
>
> Your question is a very good one.  Early versions actually rebound the
> error Vars, so I named them appropriately.  Of course that's not
> exactly how it works anymore, but I grew accustomed to how they look
> with earmuffs, and didn't change them.
>
> I'm hesitant to remove them because I like how they stand out in the
> code.  Perhaps it's not really necessary, or perhaps there's a better
> naming convention we could use?  Any thoughts?
>
> --Chouser
>
> >
>

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