Thank you very much, I see it now. 1. boxing means from primitive to object; unboxing is from object to primitive (I disregarded this for some reason) 2. it does say the loop arg not the recur arg: Auto-boxing loop arg: a
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 3:38 PM, John D. Hume <duelin.mark...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:46 AM, AtKaaZ <atk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> => (defn abc [] 3) >> #'ants/abc >> >> => (loop [a 1] >> (when (= 1 a) (recur (abc)))) >> NO_SOURCE_FILE:2 recur arg for primitive local: a is not matching >> primitive, had: Object, needed: long >> Auto-boxing loop arg: a >> nil >> > > The compiler isn't telling you it will need to box your recur arg into a > long, but that it will be boxing your initial loop arg into an Object. > Think of the message as "Maybe you intended `a` to be a primitive local, > but since you passed `recur` a who-knows-what, it won't be." > > -- > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
