The reason I have shied away from multimethods is that they aren't local to the 
current namespace (which is the point I guess :)), and I tend to end up 'using' 
each namespace which declares a defmethod.

For example, if I have a common/navbar which declares a defmulti say-hello, in
page-1 I defmethod say-hello .. "page-1". In page-2 I do the same. The problem 
is that I end up with a main namespace which uses both page-1 and page-2 so 
when page-1 calls common/navbar the defmethod in page-2 is the one that takes 
precedence.

I could pass in a qualifier to navbar which is used as part of the dispatching 
logic I guess (so page-1's qualifier is :page-1 etc.).

How do you solve this? 

On Monday, 17 November 2014 12:52:44 UTC, David Nolen  wrote:
> I would leverage multimethods. However nothing prevents you from
> composing components and passing them via props - this approach is
> popular in React.
> 
> David
> 
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Colin Yates <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I keep running into the really common use case (and seeing others running 
> > into as well) of composing components.
> >
> > Quite simply, how is one supposed to compose components in om?
> >
> > In my particular use case I have a Header component which displays a title 
> > and optionally a component describing a summary of what is being seen 
> > (which is more than simple text). I want to do something like:
> >
> > (defn header [data owner]
> >   (reify
> >     om/IRender
> >     (render [_]
> >       (dom/div .....
> >         (when optional-component) optional-component)))))
> >
> > It works if I put the component into either the header state or opts (e.g.
> > (header data owner {:opts {:optional-component (om/build ...}}))
> >
> > but neither feel idiomatic. If I had to chose the lesser of two evils I 
> > would chose :opts I guess.
> >
> > I did consider multi-methods, but this didn't feel particularly nice either.
> >
> > What am I missing as this doesn't seem to be an obscure use-case :)?
> >
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