On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Anand Patil <anand.prabhakar.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
You can do this yourself quite easily: (defn my-deref [x] (if (instance? clojure.lang.IRef x) @x x)) (my-deref 5) ==> 5 (my-deref (var filter)) ==> #<core$filter__3586 clojure.core$filter__3...@1e1be92> (my-deref filter) ==> #<core$filter__3586 clojure.core$filter__3...@1e1be92> (my-deref (agent 99)) ==> 99 I don't know if the builtin 'deref' should do this -- it seems like it might make things more confusing rather then less. --Chouser --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
