On Thursday 11 December 2008 15:24, Dave Griffith wrote: > ... > On the downside, you can't tell until runtime whether a given function > call has an acceptable arity, which pretty much any other popular > language can check at edit-time.
Given that function definitions are closed, it's eminently feasible for an editor to detect whether a calling form is valid or not. Keep in mind that the only kind of function overloading in Clojure is that based on arity. More complex forms of overloading require the use of multimethods, which do their dispatching dynamically and arbitrarily based on the supplied arguments (dynamically). In that case, not all calling forms will be statically validateable, though some still will. > --Dave Griffith Randall Schulz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
