On 6 May 2010 03:38, gary ng <garyng2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:56:09PM -0700, gary ng wrote:
>> Right now, this can be handled as:
>> (ns foo
>>  (:refer-clojure :as core :exclude (+)))
>>
>> (defn +
>>  [matrix1 matrix2]
>>  ... (core/+ num1 num2) ...)
>
> Thanks. though it is still a bit limited in the sense that in each ns, there
> can only be one implementation of a symbol,  though I think that is the
> characteristic of all symbol based dynamic language.
> I am writing a toy DSL where I would like it to be able to do something like
> this:
> (+ today 3) => a date which is 3 days from today
> (+ 1 2) => 3
> such that the following is possible
> (+ today (- 14 remind-prior))
> => 2 weeks from today - a fixed remind before days
> => a date when I am going to be reminded for an event 2 weeks from today

Perhaps this is something like what you're looking for?

http://richhickey.github.com/clojure-contrib/generic.arithmetic-api.html

-- 
Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com>

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