Thank you for claridying this. I thought it was much simpler, that the macro output is the text which is the input of the function at compile time. I will definitely need some time to understrand how the reader works. Btw. your version of macro doesn't give the key-value pairs, just the values...
On Oct 18, 8:25 pm, "Marshall T. Vandegrift" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dusan <[email protected]> writes: > > (symbol(str "(str (:" % " " vv "))")) > > This expression is the (immediate) problem child. You are producing a > symbol which contains literal space and parenthesis characters embedded > in it. When you print out the macro-expansion, it looks fine, but the > actual forms generated contain that weird symbol instead of the expected > list structure. > > You do have other problems though -- > > - A symbol prefixed with a colon is just a symbol prefixed with a > colon, not a keyword. You need to use the `keyword' function to > create a keyword from a symbol or string. > > - Instead of calling `gensym' directly, it's probably easier to just > use autogensyms in this sort of situation. > > For fun, here's a (hopefully) more idiomatic version: > > (defmacro defrecord-withstr [name fields columns include?] > (let [displayed (->> (if include? columns (remove (set columns) fields)) > (map keyword))] > `(defrecord ~name ~fields > Object > (toString [this#] > (str/join " " ((juxt ~@displayed) this#)))))) > > -Marshall -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
