On Jan 19, 1:05 am, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 18, 6:56 pm, Anand Patil <anand.prabhakar.pa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Would it make any sense to make @ polymorphic so that @x return x's > > value when x is a var rather than raising an error? > > Actually, it already is: > > user> (def x 5) > #'user/x > user> (deref (var x)) > 5 > user> @(var x) > 5 > > @x is just shorthand for (deref x), which resolves to (deref 5), which > doesn't make sense.
Stuart, Sorry, I was not being clear. Why not just let (deref 5) return 5? I would consider that syntactic sugar, as it would make it easier to deref a mixed vector of refs, constants, agents and atoms without keeping track of which indices correspond to (ref, agent, atom)s and which to constants. Thanks, Anand --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
