On May 11, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Chas Emerick wrote: > Of course, this isn't how 1.3.0 alphas work now, but unless things are really > locked down, I hope the above is a reasonable starting point for discussing > how to smooth out the inconsistencies that currently exist.
After some clarifying discussion in #clojure, I wanted to explicitly state my concrete suggestions, as I should have done in my original message. I think that: as much as possible, return type information, whether obtained by a primitive or non-primitive hint, should be in the var and function metadata in a form amenable to tooling and other runtime introspection hinting arg vectors in order to indicate function return types is a syntactically poor choice In any case, the syntactic position of function return type hints should be consistent regardless of the "category" of return type - Chas P.S. BTW, my expectation that :tag metadata should trickle down to functions themselves was driven by what looks like a bug in 1.2.0 where it *appears* that that happens, but only after one has redefined a var: https://gist.github.com/248246a3ac545a20a7b3 -- 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
