2011/9/3 Alan Malloy <a...@malloys.org>
> Huh, interesting. I assumed ^:foo meta syntax was new to 1.3, and
> wouldn't compile at all in 1.2. But now I see that in 1.2 it's
> equivalent to ^{:tag :foo} - not useful, but not damaging either. I
> guess I'll start using ^:dynamic myself.
>
Actually, it causes compiler errors, when the compiler tries to use the
keyword as a typehint. Unfortunately, this occurs in a pseudo-randomly when
compiling code that uses the "hinted" var and leads to really cryptic error
messages.
> java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to
resolve classname: :dynamic
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