On 12 February 2011 18:56, Seth <wbu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As the question states - why doesnt defrecord support java class
> inheritence? Is it just because people think it wouldnt be 'good' or
> are there true technical issues with doing it?

It's a design choice. Some languages tie together the concepts of
inheritance and polymorphism together. This tends not to be Clojure's
way of doing things; in Clojure, datatypes are just a mechanism for
polymorphism.

- James

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