On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Steve Miner <stevemi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 30, 2011, at 3:04 PM, David Nolen wrote: > > (quote foo) should be interpreted as a literal match. I thought this was > addressed by a previous user submitted patch but it doesn't look like > that's true. > > > I wrote a patch that treated quoted keywords as literals so that ':when > could be used to match a literal :when as opposed to introducing a guard. > Sorry, I didn't think about the case of literal symbols. I assumed they > already worked that way. Hmmm, maybe there's a difference between the :seq > and vector matching. I will take a look tomorrow to see if I can come up > with a patch. > That would be excellent. Thanks. > The complaint about reusing symbols is also my contribution. Maybe match > bindings should be limited to symbols starting with an alphabetic > character. I doubt anyone really wants to bind to symbols that look like > operators. They could be treated as literals for the sake of matching. > Any opinions on that? > > Steve Miner > I'd rather not special case alphanumeric symbols - let's hold off on that. The complaint about named wildcard reuse is good until we can guarantee some equality testing behavior. David -- 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
