It doesn't sound like your metadata is metadata any more.
Should you be proxying AFn instead?
On May 24, 3:24 pm, joshua-choi <rbysam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a language request for the fn special form.
>
> Functions can now have metadata. This is great, and very useful for
> me.
>
> I'd like to request that now the (fn name …) form pass on any metadata
> on the name symbol to the function itself:
>
> user=> (meta (fn ^{:a 3} name …))
> {:a 3}
>
> This would ideally come especially in handy in letfn:
>
> user=> (letfn [(^{:a 3} some-fn …)] (meta some-fn))
> {:a 3}
>
> The above is currently impossible at all; def must be used instead.
> The proposal above would make it possible, and it would be a logical
> extension of enabling metadata on functions.
>
> This matters especially for me, because I use function metadata in my
> parser library's rules to validate rules, store rule labels, and other
> things. I would love for this to happen, and I'd like to know the
> prospects of this feature being implemented for Clojure 1.3.
>
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