and defn-match from the matchure library might be able to solve some of your problems .. Just a wild guess .. to solve the wild-cards problem ... :) Just look at http://github.com/dcolthorp/matchure
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Sunil S Nandihalli < sunil.nandiha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello .. > Just my two cents.. I think the ability to specify an equality function > when creating the multi-method would solve the problem. > > for example > > (defmulti foo dispatch-fn equality-fn) > > would be very nice. one can use arbitrary functions to match ... which may > be reimplemented at users wish to achieve say wild-card support.. > > Probably it is already happening .. I don't know. > Thanks, > Sunil. > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> if you only dispatch on types you can do it like this: >> >> (derive Object ::any) >> ; Also derive all of your ::keyword types from ::any. >> >> (defmulti foo #(vec (map type %&))) >> >> (defmethod foo [::any Integer] ...) >> >> But this won't work if you dispatch on actual values as you did in >> your example. For that there is no way to specify wildcars, AFAIK. >> >> Sincerely >> Meikel >> >> -- >> 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<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> > > -- 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
