Here's the post by Timothy talking about patching the compiler: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/ef5bae605f4a0730
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Paul Stadig <p...@stadig.name> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:18 PM, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Paul Stadig <p...@stadig.name> wrote: >> >>> I may be missing something, but how does having to (declare) vars fix >>> typos? I don't think anyone is suggesting *creating* a var that is >>> referenced before it is defined. What people are asking for is that the >>> compiler looks-ahead to verify that the var will eventually be defined, and >>> then go on its merry way. Typos would still be discovered, and people >>> wouldn't have to stop and (declare). >>> >> >> Yeah I wasn't suggesting that vars should be created, sorry if it sounded >> like I was (I mentioned declare because this came up in another thread about >> declare and someone had hacked the reader to not bail immediately on >> undefined symbols). >> > > Sorry, my fault. I was just responding in general, not to you specifically. > > >> >> In CL, if you have definitions out of order in the compiler will issue >> warnings. >> >> >>> >>> I'm not saying it's an easy change... >>> >>> >>> Paul >>> >> > Could someone post the link to the previous discussion? I searched the > group for declare, but didn't turn up anything. > > > Paul > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
