2010/11/25 HiHeelHottie <hiheelhot...@gmail.com>

>
> Ken,
>
> Thanks for putting this together.  As a newbie, this gives me a lot to
> mull over.  Can you explain the convention of a * at the end of a
> function name?
>

Hi, it's a common convention when you have both a macro and a function, the
macro generally delegating as quick as possible the real work to its
supporting function.

The function is for composability, etc.
The macro is for syntactic sugar.

HTH,

-- 
Laurent

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