Hi, thanks for the reply!
Yes, the case I had in mind can definitely be done with a separate
hierarchy, it's just that I wanted something "global", so my first instinct
was to make use of the existing one.
After thinking a bit more, I've settled on wrapping isa? so that it
defaults to a
I'm not certain I know what use case you're getting at. It sounds like you
want to take the current state of the global hierarchy and "fork" it into a
private hierarchy? Even though the var is private you can still access its
value:
@#'clojure.core/global-hierarchy (same as (deref (var
Ok, this is part of a theme that haunts me and I would like to know if
anyone shares my view or has a insteresting point.
The #'global-hierarchy in clojure.core is used to enable things such as
multi-methods, and the isa? function.
Now, we can change a var with alter-var-root, and I see it
