On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Christian Vest Hansen <karmazi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > All. > > I think it would be nice if the doc-string was allowed (in addition to > current behavior) to immediately follow the params vector in the > various defsomethings. > > To the best of my knowledge, such a change would be non-breaking because, > a) It should be implemented such that (defn foo [] "bar") is a > function that always returns the string "bar" - like it does today, > and > b) The "eggs" string following the params vector in (defn spam [] > "eggs" "pokemon") is completely harmless in current code. > > Even though this change would introduce yet-another-way-to-def-fn, I > think it is a good change because it allows be to keep my [params] on > the same line as my defn's and still have a thorough doc-string. And > in my humble opinion, I think it improves the readability of function > definitions when the defn, name and [params] are on the same line > regardless of how long the doc-string is.
Where would it go when you have multiple parameter lists and bodies? (defn blah ([a] (do-something-with a)) ([a b] (do-something-with a b))) -- Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
