I know I should not be naming my functions the same thing as ones in core but was surprised when I wrote the following https://github.com/thattommyhall/tth-SICP/blob/master/1-35.clj I have being doing the SICP stuff in clojure and accieently copied "try" as the fn name and it did not work, I noticed a colleague chose "test" and it did work, but test is in core too so I don't get the difference.
Playing around on the repl I get user> (defn try [] ()) #'user/try user> (defn test [] ()) WARNING: test already refers to: #'clojure.core/test in namespace: user, being replaced by: #'user/test #'user/test user> (try 1) 1 user> (test 1) Throws "Wrong number of args (1) passed to: user$test" (as you would expect from my defn of test) user> (user/try 1) and user> (user/test 1) both throw the error. Why can test be shadowed and not try? Am I missing something? Tom -- 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
