The "@" symbol is a reader macro. It's a hard coded table so that when the reader comes across the @ symbol it knows to instead change it to a deref call. For eg,
(def a (ref 0)) (dosync (alter inc a)) @a ;; is the same thing as (deref a) http://clojure.org/reader#toc2 or http://clojure.org/api#toc178 Luke Amdor On Dec 2, 3:03 am, David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On the subject of with-local-vars, I noticed that I could use @ to > deference them in addition to var-get. Is that intended behaviour? I > didn't see it documented anywhere. > > -- > Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
