> There are probably ways of creating types on protocols, but I haven't
> tried that yet.

Sorry, what I meant to say was...
> There are probably ways of creating deftypes on protocols, but I haven't
> tried that yet.


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 1 Sep., 07:33, Adrian Cuthbertson <adrian.cuthbert...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There are probably ways of creating types on protocols, but I haven't
>> tried that yet.
>
> Clojure is a dynamically typed language. I don't think that putting
> types on protocols is very interesting. Type hints should be a low-
> level construct put into low-level functions when perfomance needs
> dictate it. Otherwise type hints should be omitted. Clojure gives the
> developer every freedom he likes. Trying to force types on the
> protocol is the wrong way to go in Clojure, IMHO.
>
> Sincerely
> Meikel
>
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