Clojurescript doesn't have vars, so why not have def return the symbol ?
Le 15 mai 2012 à 06:14, kovas boguta <kovas.bog...@gmail.com> a écrit : > I think this is a pretty valid feature request. > > The main question is, can this be done without having vars in clojurescript. > > One way to do it is to surpress output somehow, under certain conditions. > > Either as a token at the end of a repl input, or in the semantics of def > itself. > > I don't have an ideal specific solution here, but I've noticed this > problem as well and found it pretty annoying. > > There should be a way to solve it that is a reasonable compromise. > > > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Mark Engelberg > <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:41 PM, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> (def tree (function-that-produces-an-enormous-tree 2)) >>> >>> >>> Isn't doing this at the top level bad form? >> >> >> The purpose of a REPL is for interactive experimentation. I want to give >> names to the things I'm building so I can play with them in the REPL. >> Nothing bad form about that. >> >>> >>> Also I don't see how this isn't solved by modifying some habits. >>> >>> (defn test-tree [] (function-that-produces-an-enormous-tree 2)) >>> (time (test-tree)) >>> >> >> time prints out the value that is computed. The above example would suffer >> the same problem of printing out the tree at the REPL. You could do >> something like (time (do (test-tree) nil)) to suppress printing, but if you >> want to do further interactive manipulations to the tree, you'd end up >> recomputing it. So then, you get into workarounds involving delay. It >> starts to get ugly, I think. >> >> Clojure's ability to give names to things without printing the values is a >> feature I use every day in my interactive explorations. >> >> >> -- >> 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 -- 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
