Gary Verhaegen <gary.verhae...@gmail.com> writes: > Just to clarify, * is a legal character in any symbol in Clojure. > > There seems to be a growing convention of having a function foo* and a > macro foo which does the same thing but with some syntactic sugar.
There's a similar situation in clojure's core. let, fn, and loop are all macros built on top of the real special forms let*, fn*, and loop*. The macros add support for destructuring on top of the simpler special forms. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
