Meikel Brandmeyer <brandmeyer.mei...@gmail.com> writes: > 2013/9/20 Phillip Lord <phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk> >> (def bob3 3) >> >> introduces a new symbol, I am struggling to see why >> >> (intern 'user 'bob3 3) >> >> cannot be recognised similarly. >> > > Because intern happens at runtime. It's a normal function. The above intern > call is easily translated to the def. intern is only interesting when bob3 > is computed based on runtime information, which is not available at compile > time. But then the compile cannot special case it anyway.
>From a user perspective, I think that this is very messy. I can see your example about "do", but then I think using a common form like do is a mistake; having "do" behave differently depending on whether it is top level or not is exposing a lot of detail that should not be. Phil -- -- 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.
