Why not have two behaviours from the same code base ?
There could be a "strict" mode versus an optimized mode.
That could allow more optimizations at run time while
having a clear trace in the code of these optimizations.
The strict mode would be slower but that should be fine when
testing.
Going
On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Michael Wood wrote:
Fair enough, but why does the (defn) succeed if these symbols are
reserved?
Clojure does not always enforce all the rules. It may come to pass
that Clojure will never enforce all the rules as the performance cost
and complexity added by d
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Kevin Downey wrote:
>
> Symbols starting and ending with "." are reserved.
> see http://clojure.org/reader the section on Symbols
Fair enough, but why does the (defn) succeed if these symbols are reserved?
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Michael Wood wrote
On 18.03.2009, at 19:03, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> Why is user// an invalid token, whereas clojure.core// works
> perfectly well?
I found out in the meantime that clojure.core// is indeed handled as
a special case by the reader (line 276 in LispReader.java), but that
still doesn't answer the qu
Symbols starting and ending with "." are reserved.
see http://clojure.org/reader the section on Symbols
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Michael Wood wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Kevin Downey wrote:
>>
>> this came up on irc starting:
>> http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2009-02
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Kevin Downey wrote:
>
> this came up on irc starting:
> http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2009-02-18.html#23:49
> and the solution:
> http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2009-02-19.html#0:30
Interesting.
I noticed something similar the other day:
user=> (defn ...
this came up on irc starting:
http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2009-02-18.html#23:49
and the solution:
http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2009-02-19.html#0:30
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Konrad Hinsen
wrote:
>
> Consider the following session:
>
> user=> /
> #
> user=> clojure.core//
> #
Consider the following session:
user=> /
#
user=> clojure.core//
#
user=> (ns-unmap *ns* '/)
nil
user=> /
java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: / in this context
(NO_SOURCE_FILE:0)
user=> (defn / [a b] (clojure.core// a b))
#'user//
user=> /
#
user=> user//
java.lang.Exception: Invalid
