2011/8/3 Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Brian Marick <mar...@exampler.com> wrote: > >> ** It could mean "there are no nasty surprises here". I vividly remember >> debugging a Smalltalk program and discovering what I'd been ignoring as a >> simple getter actually had hundreds of lines of code behind it. Using a >> keyword as a getter wouldn't have misled me so. (:start voyage) also makes >> it clear that the code is fast, whereas (start voyage) allows for anything - >> perhaps a leisurely calculation involving database queries. >> > > FWIW, that's what I take it to mean. If I see (start voyage) I assume start > is a function that "does something" to voyage to return a value. If I see > (:start voyage) it conveys both the simple accessor and "voyage is a > map-like structure" which is potentially useful in understanding the code > (without that hint, voyage is some opaque data structure). >
I would not rely "too much" on that : when associativity is done as a protocol in a future version, voyage could then be of a type defined by deftype which may involve database queries ... > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ > Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ > > "Perfection is the enemy of the good." > -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) > > -- > 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 > -- 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
