Hi, On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:56:09PM -0700, gary ng wrote:
> I have a question related to this. > > (ns foo (:use clojure.core)) > > (defn + [x y] x) > > '+' is already referred because of the use and is an error right now. But > this is a legitimate use of the symbol as 'foo' can be matrix and matrix > addition is different from standard number addition. Or is there a better > for these kind of primitive symbols overload in clojure or symbol overload > in general ? > > :exclude may not be what I want here as I may still call for the basic + on > numbers. In Haskell for example, this is not an issue because of its type > class support so I can have multiple '+' doing different things. Right now, this can be handled as: (ns foo (:refer-clojure :as core :exclude (+))) (defn + [matrix1 matrix2] ... (core/+ num1 num2) ...) 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