Hi, I have a use case where I'd like to load small forms in String format from a database and wrap them in functions. This is to support some basic runtime customisation.
I'm having problems getting read-string and macros to play nicely, a problem which can be distilled as below: ; a simple macro to return a fn (defmacro xr [f] `(fn [] ~f)) ; calling the macro normally (apply (xr (println "hello")) []) ; nil (and prints hello) ; calling with the result of read string (apply (xr (read-string "(println \"hello\")")) []) ; (println "hello") (and prints nothing) I'm sure I'm missing something very obvious here but I had assumed that since (= '(println "rob") (read-string "(println \"rob\")")) that the above example would work. Regards, Rob Harrop -- 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
