On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:41:33 AM UTC+1, puzzler wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Kemar <ke.m...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Explicitly derefing the var and calling meta on it works:
>>
>> (meta @#'c) -> {:amazing true}
>>
>> No idea as to why though...
>>
>
> Quirky. I assume that explicitly derefing the var defeats the speed
> benefits of ^:const, yes?
>
The way speed is achieved for :const is that it is given the same treatment
as Java's *compile-time constants*, so you're not even touching the var
when you refer to it by name. Now, *meta* could be accepted as a special
case, explicitly detected by the compiler, but that mechanism would once
again be easily defeated. So I'd say it's not a bug, but a case of *you
can't have your cake and eat it, too.*
*
*
-marko
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