On Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 9:25:31 AM UTC-6, John Schmidt wrote: > > Nice to see continued progress on Clojure 1.10! > > It is not clear to me what metadata extension provides that is not already > possible with direct definitions or external extensions. Some additional > background or a small motivating example would be much appreciated in > clearing up the confusion! >
Metadata extension allows you to implement protocols on a per-value basis (the others are type/class-oriented). This opens up a whole new range of potential uses for protocols. Rich was already using this approach for the new datafy/nav functionality - this made it generic for all protocols. Any collection instance can carry metadata, so you can take any collection instance and dynamically extend a protocol to it by adding metadata. So if you think about something like Component, which has a Lifecycle protocol for start/stop, you can now make lightweight components without needing to make a type or reify: $ clj -Sdeps '{:deps {org.clojure/clojure {:mvn/version "1.10.0-beta5"}, com.stuartsierra/component {:mvn/version "0.3.2"}}}' Clojure 1.10.0-beta5 user=> (require '[com.stuartsierra.component :as component]) nil user=> (def c (with-meta {:state :init} {`component/start (fn [c] (assoc c :state :started)) `component/stop (fn [c] (assoc c :state :stopped))})) #'user/c user=> (component/start c) {:state :started} user=> (component/stop c) {:state :stopped} -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.