Sunil, > I read in "Clojure in Action" book by Amit Rathore, that #^ associates > metadata for the next form. He also mentions that it is deprecated. So what > is the current way of doing it? > > Also, in code like this - > > (defn filenames-in-jar > "Returns a sequence of Strings naming the non-directory entries in the JAR > file." > [#^JarFile jar-file] > > is it specifying that the type of the jar-file argument should be JarFile? > > Where can I find some more documentation and or examples about it?
The current way of attaching meta-data or type hints to vars is through the ^ reader macro. So your example will look like this - (defn filenames-in-jar "" [^JarFile jar-file] ...) Regards, BG -- Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose at gmail.com -- 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
