I fail to see how it requires changing a lot of code. it just means you need to change the place where you create your maps. which if you are also type tagging them is a lot of repetitive code, so it should already be factored out into a function, so then you just switch out one function.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Andreas Wenger <andi.xeno...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 20 Jan., 00:56, Kevin Downey <redc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> clojure structs are an optimized version of maps for a set of shared >> keys. if you don't have a defined set of shared keys you just have a >> map. so by all means, use a map > > You're talking about the implementation in the background, but I am > talking about nice code. > I'm aware that defstruct with optional keys introduce a slight > overhead compared to normal hashmaps, but that is minimal and > defstruct/struct-map is much cleaner and more documentary that a pure > hashmap. > I can not find a reason why Clojure forbids to make use of this nice > feature. > > -- > 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 > -- And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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