Laurent PETIT wrote:
> To simplify a little bit (both from a library implementor and user
> perspective), why not get rid of the appended dash - ?
>
> Indeed, having an appended dash suggests to me (so it's not apparent
> from the examples) that the user will have to access, for a same object,
> data sometimes from key accessors, and sometimes from specific function
> accessors.
Here's my line of thought that lead to adding the suffixes.
In order to encapsulate access to a data type, it must only be used via
the designated accessor functions. The dash in the key name is there to
act as a reminder of that. If you use the symbol to get a field's value
anywhere outside the field's accessor function, it means you're doing
something you're not supposed to do.
I thought that I'd mark all the fields in the struct as "private" like
that to make the clients think twice before circumventing an accessor
function.
; A regular struct, so this is OK
(do-something (my-own-struct :foobar))
; Circumventing an accessor - this is risky (and looks wrong)!
(do-something-else (encapsulated-struct :foobar-))
A Java analog in a parallel universe where there's no "private" keyword:
// Circumventing an accessor - this is risky (and looks wrong)!
doSomethingElse(anotherObject.m_foobar);
> I don't know if the whole common lisp "structs" library has been ported
> to clojure.
> And, as you asked, I'm not sure whether this would be a good think to
> port it, and if there's another idiomatic way to solve the same problems.
Unfortunately I have no prior experience with Lisp. That's probably why
I'm so at loss with something this elementary! Frankly, I'm a bit afraid
that I might be looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't even
come up in proper Lisp programs. I need a book called "Clojure for OO
Programmers"... :)
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Timo
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