On 16 Mar, 22:31, André Thieme <splendidl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > The behaviour of Clojure can be seen as a disadvantage, yes, because > you either need these forward declarations, or you need to arrange > functions different. > But it also protects you from typos. And this can be even more > important. Imagine you have a complex program and accidently > made a typo, and this will go unnoticed for days and days, until > the program actually runs your code...
I agree that such checks are very useful, but: - why should you wrestle with them also when you are just sketching out some code at the REPL? Much of the code you are writing is going to be trashed, so why should you bother keeping up with declarations dependencies? - why, when you finally save the source file as a module and and compile it, the compiler should not be smart enough to read every definition until the end of the file before complaining? Your needs change when you are sketching a prototype versus when you are finalizing the project. Don't you agree? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
