Brian Craft <craft.br...@gmail.com> writes: > I know I saw an explanation of this on some obscure page, but I can't > find it now. What's up with the symbols with stars at front & end?
It's a convention that dynamic vars have "hearmuffs". (def ^:dynamic *foo*) Not everyone uses it, and the earmuffs themselves have no meaning to clojure. (I think in some older clojure version (1.1?), vars with earmuffs were automatically made dynamic, but that long ago.) Bye, Tassilo -- 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