Could Clojure have something similar to CL's 'defconstant'? http://gigamonkeys.com/book/variables.html
On Apr 2, 4:09 pm, Bradbev <brad.beveri...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems to me that the real solution is that the Clojure compiler > needs to support global constants. You could probably emulate the > behaviour by rebinding global vars inside the let though. > > (def *foo* 100) > (defn bar [] > (let [foo *foo*] > ...)) > > Brad > > On Apr 2, 7:57 am, Paul Stadig <p...@stadig.name> wrote: > > > I think you are right, Brad. > > > However, I wonder though if there is a better way to define a constant. > > Neither the macro nor function seems clean. I like David's > > wrapping-the-whole-thing-in-a-let, but what if you wanted to access the > > value of "width" in a different file? Would one have to resort to defining a > > Java class (at compile time or runtime)? > > > Paul > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Bradbev <brad.beveri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > It would seem that macros in this case should not be required. A > > > normal function that simply returns a constant should get inlined by > > > the JIT. > > > > Cheers, > > > Brad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
