On Jun 12, 4:58 pm, Chouser <chou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So it looks like when the compiler expands defonce, it actually
> > evaluates a def right then and there, rather than the def only being
> > evaluated when the expansion of the defonce macro is evaluated.
>
> Yes, the var is interned in the namespace at compile time.
> This is true of all macros that expand to 'def', not just
> 'defonce'.  That's one of the reasons that using 'def' other
> than at the top level is suspect.

And that, in turn, is reason why I avoided defonce in preference
to .hasRoot. :)
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