I get it, thank you! Alan Excerpts from Meikel Brandmeyer's message of 2010-02-22 17:22:19 -0500: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 05:07:33PM -0500, Alan Dipert wrote: > > Hi Meikel, thank you as always for your help! > > You are welcome. :) > > > This makes a lot of sense. Am I correct in understanding that at some > > level there is a separation of var and fn namespace? Or is the need > > for deref more just a consequence of the way objects respond with > > their contents? > > No. There is no separation of var and fn namespace. Clojure is a Lisp-1 > (for some suitable definition of Lisp-1). Clojure stores all global > bindings in Vars. Be it a function, a number, a map, whatever. Now the > need for deref comes from the fact, that ns-resolve returns the Var > itself and not its contents. These are retrieved with the deref. > > Sincerely > Meikel >
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