On Jun 5, 9:19 am, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > Am 05.06.2010 um 08:49 schrieb ataggart: > > > If I understand correctly, keywords aren't "defined" anywhere; they > > are literal values, so your question would be akin to asking for a way > > to retrieve all the literal integers used in the code. That said, > > there may be some implementation detail that maintains the set of > > instantiated keyword values, but so far as I've seen, there's nothing > > in the public api.
Integers (when not BigNumbers) are trivial to compare so you don't need to keep a list. But keywords are different. In any language that does keywords right, keywords evaluate to themselves & the same keyword always evaluates to exactly the same object (since keywords are also immutable in any language). This makes equality tests on keywords very fast (you can convert from string to the object at compile time) and implies you've got a list (or probably hash-table) of them somewhere anyway. > Vim has a feature that let's you complete arbitrary "keywords" (vim's > definition, not clojure's) which are used in an open buffer. So when you have > ::some-terribly-long-keyword-so-that-completion-makes-sense in one buffer, > then you can type ::some-te<C-n> in another buffer and Vim will happily > complete it. Maybe emacs has a similar feature? This would also have the > advantage, that you don't need a running swank in the background. Although > it's not completely accurate, it's a reasonable approximation. Well, when you're working with SLIME, you've got a running swank anyway, so doing a less accurate (and probably much more complex) search through the source (assuming you've got all of it) is not something I'd prefer when I've got close to 100% accurate completions for everything else. Joost. -- 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
