On Mar 17, 12:15 am, "Stephen C. Gilardi" <squee...@mac.com> wrote: > If *autodef-unresolved-symbols* is true, and if "a" has never been > mentioned before, this interaction with Clojure: > > user=> a > java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: a in this context > > would become: > > user=> a > java.lang.IllegalStateException: Var user/a is unbound.
Is an exception needed here? Don't exceptions mean computing has been aborted and shouldn't we use them to signal errors, not warnings? Would a simple message from Clojure (a special formatting to allow the IDE to highlight it) be better? > Under this system: > > - the behavior is optional at the repl. anybody not using it sees no > change in behavior there > - Clojure would relax its ordering requirements in source files while > > still ensuring that all forward references are satisfied by the end of > each file. > - any vars that are intended to be unbound would (still) have to be > def'd explicitly. That would accomplish what we are talking about here. Thanks for taking time to explore the idea. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
