the clojure compiler also does some optimizations for keyword literal calls on deftypes which you lose if you def it
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things? -- 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
