On Apr 27, 9:45 am, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:20 AM, Mark Engelberg wrote:
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> > Watching Stuart's tutorial, it looks like the automaticfactory
> > functions for deftypes have gone away (I'm still working with Clojure
> > 1.1, so haven't had a chance to try the latest changes for myself).
> > I'm going to miss that feature, especially fordefrecord, which is now
> > the "common case" construct.
>
> > I understand that you can always do "Foo." to construct a Foo record,
> > but these constructors don't act as full-fledged functions, right?
>
> > Honestly, for me the main issue is just that subjectively, it is less
> > satisfying to create a Clojure data structure and end up with
> > something that you construct with Java interop syntax. I'd like
> > Clojure data structures to look and feel "Clojurish" not "Javaish"
> > (yes, I know that Clojure is built with interop in mind, so
> > technically, anything Javaish is also Clojurish, but I still feel a
> > difference).
>
> I agree. I asked for suggestions for thefactoryfn in #clojure, but
> got some pushback against introducing things in the namespace. I'm
> still open to suggestions, here are the issues:
>
> The generated type name is now imported, so at the very least the factoryfn
> can't have the same name as the class. Alternatives are
> create-Foo etc.
>
> Some have asked for parameterized factories:
>
> (record Foo ...) or (record ::Foo ...)
>
> These cannot be made as fast as direct factories. Also, they may be
> used for key/value initialization:
>
> (record ::Foo :field1 v1 :field2 v2 ...)
>
> As soon as people want bodies for the factories, in order to do
> argument transformation/validation/defaulting, a generatedfactoryis
> in the way.
>
> We left it at: If you really want afactoryyou can always write one,
> let's see if people do.
>
Thought a dynamic factory is usefull. Here it goes my first macro, so
please let me know if I'm silly here.
(defmacro record
"Dynamic factory for defrecords."
([name] `(record ~name {}) )
([name vals-map]
(let [num-fields
(alength (.getParameterTypes (first (.getDeclaredConstructors
(class name)))))
args (repeat num-fields nil)]
`(merge (new ~name ~...@args) ~vals-map))))
Usage:
(defrecord Bar [x y])
(record Bar)
cheers,
Pedro
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