Oh, I see it. Well, it complicates the matters but at least it is not a bug :)
2012/4/11 Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> > Hi, > > for hygienic reasons. ` qualifies symbols, while ' does not. So `or might > result in clojure.core/or, while 'or is always or. This is important. > Consider the following example. > > (ns foo.bar) > > (defmacro foo-or > [& body] > `(or ~@body)) > > (ns frob.nicate > (:refer-clojure :exclude [or]) > (:use foo.bar)) > > (defn or > [x] > (do-something-interesting-here-with x)) > > (defn frob > [x y z] > (foo-or x y z)) > > Slightly complicated setup but required to understand what's going on. > frob uses foo-or from some other namespace. foo-or expands into some form > using or. Since nothing was specified differently this is clojure.core/or. > Would ` not qualify symbols you wouldn't be able to use foo-or in > frob.nicate since it would refer to the custom or defined there. But by > always qualifying the symbols the correct or is used as was intended by the > foo-or macro. > > Hope that helps. > > Kind regards > Meikel > > -- > 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 > -- Best regards, Alexander Shabanov -- 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
