Hi, On Feb 17, 12:49 pm, Terrence Brannon <scheme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > > > #^ attaches metadata to the following thing read. > > The reference manual REPL transcript <http://clojure.org/special_forms> > makes it look like it is being used to retrieve the metadata: > > user=> ^#'mymax > ->{:name mymax, > :user/comment "this is the best fn ever!", > :doc "mymax [xs+] gets the maximum value in xs using > ", > :arglists ([x] [x y] [x y & more]) > :file "repl-1", > :line 126, > :ns #<Namespace user >, > > :test #<user$fn__289 user$fn__...@20f443 >} > > Also, I'm not clear on why I cant get the metadata for this variable x I > just defined even though meta() takes an object as argument > <http://clojure.org/metadata> > > user=> (def #^{ :doc "some doc" } x 12) > #'user/x > user=> (meta x) > nil > user=> x > 12 > user=> You confuse #^ with #'. Try (meta #'x). Sincerely Meikel -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
