manually? did we lose macros? On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There are no extension points built on protocols in Clojure yet. Delivering >> protocols is step one, re-architecting the core abstractions in terms of >> protocols is still to come. >> >> Rich > > So how hard it would it be right now, for example, to implement in > Clojure a deftype that responds to all the functions a sorted map > responds to? > > I started looking through the source code to try to figure out what > interfaces I'd need to override, but it seemed like an overwhelming > mixture of Clojure and Java interfaces, and very difficult to get > right without the ability to use the existing abstract base classes > that are in place (AFn, ASeq, APersistentMap, etc.). For example, it > seems like to implement IFn, you'd need to manually write out cases > for the first twenty arities. > > Would you recommend waiting until the core abstractions are > re-architected before tackling something like this, or is there an > easy way to do this I'm not seeing? > > Thanks. > > -- > 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
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