On 7-Dec-09, at 12:17 PM, Laurent PETIT wrote:

> 2009/12/6 Bob Hutchison <hutch-li...@recursive.ca>
>
>>
>> On 6-Dec-09, at 3:46 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Am 06.12.2009 um 21:29 schrieb Bob Hutchison:
>>>
>>>> It turns out that dispatching on play.foo.Foo is the only way that
>>>> works. I was hoping ::f/Foo or f/Foo would work too (maybe my alias
>>>> is
>>>> wrong??). Especially since, with aliasing in the user namespace, I
>>>> can
>>>> create a play.foo.Foo using f/Foo
>>>
>>> Does the following work?
>>>
>>> (ns play.foo)
>>> (deftype Foo [])
>>> (defmulti my-print type)
>>> (defmethod my-print ::Foo [x] (println "Got a foo"))
>>>
>>> (in-ns 'user)
>>> ; Note: normally written as (require [play.foo :as f])
>>> (alias 'f 'play.foo)
>>> (def x (f/Foo))
>>> (f/my-print x)
>>
>>
>> Yes! Thanks! The dispatch on type rather than class is the trick. I
>> actually ended up writing a macro, this is *much* better.
>>
>
> Please note that in clojure, it's the dispatch on the class that's the
> "trick", not on the type ;-)

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Could you expand on that a bit?

Thanks,
Bob

>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bob
>>
>>>
>>> Sincerely
>>> Meikel
>>>
>>
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>> http://www.recursive.ca/
>> weblog: http://www.recursive.ca/hutch
>>
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