Would :deprecated be a reasonable thing to include in a function's
metadata? Just the presence of it seems good enough, but I guess
pairing it with some programmer friendly message ("hey, use bar
instead of foo") might be nice.

Or... maybe 10,000 lines of XML as metadata! :-)

On Mar 18, 10:50 am, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> memfn is from the depths of time and should be deprecated -- it is  
> idiomatic to write an anonymous fn around the method.
>
> Stu
>
>
>
> > This seems like a potential usecase for (memfn):
>
> > -------------------------
> > clojure.core/memfn
> > ([name & args])
> > Macro
> >  Expands into code that creates a fn that expects to be passed an
> >  object and any args and calls the named instance method on the
> >  object passing the args. Use when you want to treat a Java method as
> >  a first-class fn.
>
> > user> (= (map (memfn getName) (-> (Runtime/
> > getRuntime) .getClass .getMethods seq))
> >         (map #(.getName %) (-> (Runtime/
> > getRuntime) .getClass .getMethods seq)))
> > true
>
> > On Mar 18, 6:21 am, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> Java methods are not clojure functions. To treat them like first-
> >> class
> >> functions you have to wrap them in clojure functions as you did in
> >> your second example.
>
> >> For your actual task: you might want to look at clojure.contrib.repl-
> >> utils/show.
>
> >> Sincerely
> >> Meikel
>
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