This sounds interesting. I tried to define a multimethod in one file and a
method in another file. I had no success.
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It does work.
As far as I can tell, the namespace with defmethod must require the
namespace with defmulti and also the namespace with defmethod must be
required from some other namespace that is being executed.
Eg:
*foo.clj:*
(ns foo)
(defmulti mmtest identity)
(defmethod mmtest :default [_]
This cleared it up, thanks.
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Case only works with ints keywords and some other literals (including
lists, but don't do that, since it doesn't do what you think it does).
While multi-methods work on pretty much anything:
(defmulti first-of-both (fn [a b]
[(first a) (first b)]))
(defmethod
Is there any documentation or do you have thoughts on choosing between
using multimethods vs case? I assume they both do constant time dispatch.
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Use multimethods if you want to open the system up for later extension
(by a library user, for example).
Elric Erkose mailto:elric.erk...@gmail.com
July 8, 2014 at 2:02 PM
Is there any documentation or do you have thoughts on choosing between
using multimethods vs case? I assume they both do
