2010/11/18 Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> > Salut Laurent, > > On 17 Nov., 16:53, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > while a good description of how things work in 1.2 > > It doesn't even do that. This is exactly *not* the way it works in > 1.2, because self-references don't go through the Var. I'd be curious > to know, why calling the function itself is made a special case. To > allow this assignements to a different Var and re-defing/removal of > the original Var? >
Fair enough, I somehow missed the point of the OP wrt self-referencing functions. > > > it's not accurate for 1.3, and my point was that Stu's description > > of how 1.3 works (by using words like "the function is recompiled") > > does not match with my own knowledge of what had been done > > in 1.3 the days just before the conj. > > Forgetting for a second that my explaination is plain wrong... There > wouldn't be a difference between 1.2 and 1.3. "retrieve something from > the Var" does say nothing about this "retrieval" being cached in some > way or not. Even putting the reference directly there and recompiling > (or doing some other magic to make Repl development make work again) > has basically the same effect. So the description would be valid for > 1.2 and 1.3 if the self reference would go through the Var. But as I > said: it doesn't. So the description is "Quark", > > > Since then, I've been away from #clojure (to my regret) and maybe I've > > missed new evolutions on the way it's handled in master. > > I'm missing where development is going on in general. Nothing on the > mailing list anymore. The last times I lurked #clojure there was no > dev talk there. Some stuff seems to be done on dev.clojure.org. But I > find it hard to follow this stuff. Clojure has gone "closed > development", so to say. (I have no problem with Rich coming up with > ideas beyond democratic decisions. In fact I think this non-democracy > is a Good Thing. However I'd like to follow what's going...) > > 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
