Not sure how practical it is, but a while back I was playing around with a macro redefining defn so that it stored the function source in the meta-data of the function. I can't find it now but remember it being fairly trivial to implement.
- lachlan On Sep 20, 10:29 am, Hozumi <fat...@googlemail.com> wrote: > If you use emacs, incremental back search is handy. > Typing "C-r defn", you may jump to the defnition of a function. > Next time, you need to type only "C-r C-r". > > -- Takahiro Hozumi > On 9月19日, 午前6:39, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > OK, this feels like a really dumb question... > > > I'm playing around in the REPL, I type in a function, I use it and > > continue to work on other stuff... I can't remember what the function > > looked like and I want to display the source of it again... > > > I know I can go back through the REPL history but maybe I typed it in > > ages ago or maybe I typed it on multiple lines so it's hard to piece > > together from the history. That seems like hard work. > > > I know I can go directly to the .jline-clojure.main.history file in my > > home directory. That seems like cheating (and it means I have to jump > > out of the REPL and hunt thru the file). > > > I know I can use (source sym) to get the source of something whose > > .clj is on the classpath - that doesn't work for stuff typed directly > > into the REPL. > > > Is there something easy within the REPL to show the source of > > something you defined earlier? > > -- > > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > > Railo Technologies, Inc. --http://getrailo.com/ > > An Architect's View --http://corfield.org/ > > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > > -- Margaret Atwood -- 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
