I too approve of Mark's reasoning and solution. Probably that should be moved into http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Allow+duplicate+map+keys+and+set+elements
On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:40:50 AM UTC+2, Peter Taoussanis wrote: > > +1 on Mark's most recent reply, that is: > > * Revert to 1.2 behaviour. > * Consistency is good, but must be in favour of not throwing RTEs. > * No knobs. > > It's clear that there's lots of directions that could be taken here, but > getting caught up on trying to find a solution that pleases everyone 100% > is, IMO, both a non-starter and inconsistent with Clojure's generally > opinionated approach. > > The pre-1.2 behaviour was sensible, consistent (both in terms of API and > Clojure design idioms IMO) and didn't raise any complaints (as Mark has > pointed out, the motivation behind the original change was actually for > something unrelated). Mark's arguments on the relative value of RTE/no-RTE > behaviour are also sound IMO. > > My 2c: let's try not to over-analyse this thing. Revert the behaviour, and > let's move on to more interesting ways of moving the language forward :) > -- 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
