On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:57 AM, Mon Key wrote:
> I'm sure I'm missing something....
>
> Maybe I should re address the issue in a different way; outside of
> `meta' what other way is there to do a *visual* check/comparison to
> test if two otherwise identical and/or nearly identical symbols
> contain identical slot values?
'meta' is where the doc information is stored. Why would you rule that
out?
Assume my-test appears to have a doc string. The following expression:
(:doc (meta (var my-test)))
will return the doc string if it is correctly placed or nil if it is
not.
> In the case where the `doc' string (disregarding whether it is
> actually a doc string or not) is placed after the param how does one
> catch this (mis)placement when examining the `meta' on the symbol
> returns nil?
In Clojure, symbols can name things, but do not have slots for values
themselves. Vars are bound to values, including values that are
functions. Reviewing the docs about this at clojure.org may help.
If I still haven't showed you how to accomplish what you're looking to
accomplish, please do ask again. I'm sure as a group we can get to a
useful answer.
--Steve
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