Rich at the Conj explained that he wanted to remove a bunch of verifications each time a value was referenced to gain some speed. The basis was of his reasoning was that an unbound value is an exception more than a common thing and all these verifications at run time were really slowing things significantly for all applications.
I recalls that he mentioned he needed to "create" the unbound value to achieve these optimizations. Luc P. Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote .. > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Jacek Laskowski <ja...@laskowski.net.pl> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it intended in 1.3-alpha2? I think the error message in 1.2 is way > > better (although not as user friendly as I wish to). Shall I report > > it? Where? How? > > > > devmac:~ jacek$ clj -13 > > CLOJURE_DIR: /Users/jacek/apps/clojure > > CLOJURE_CONTRIB_JAR: /Users/jacek/apps/clojure-contrib-1.3.0-alpha2.jar > > Clojure 1.3.0-alpha2 > > user=> (def c) > > #'user/c > > user=> c > > #<Unbound Unbound: #'user/c> > > > > devmac:~ jacek$ clj > > CLOJURE_DIR: /Users/jacek/apps/clojure-1.2.0 > > CLOJURE_CONTRIB_JAR: > > /Users/jacek/apps/clojure-contrib/target/clojure-contrib-1.2.0.jar > > Clojure 1.2.0 > > user=> (def c) > > #'user/c > > user=> c > > java.lang.IllegalStateException: Var user/c is unbound. (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0) > > Looks like an attempt to make commonplace compile error messages less > verbose, to me. > > -- > 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 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
