Yes. That concept of a promiscuous map (great name) is what I'm trying to get at.
On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:30:52 UTC+1, Cedric Greevey wrote: > > The main use for qualified keywords that occurs to me is if you have a > "promiscuous map" that will be holding key/value pairs submitted by > multiple pieces of code of distinct origins. A big registry of preferences > that can be added to by plugins would be an example, with qualified > keywords making it much less likely for two plugins to be made that are > incompatible with each other because they keep overwriting each others' > preferences. > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Jim foo.bar <jimpi...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> On 10/04/13 14:03, Simon Katz wrote: >> >>> Second, Clojure supports namespace-qualified keywords, presumably >>> because it's possible that different libraries might want to use the same >>> keyword for different purposes. >>> >> >> I don't think that is the reason for having namespace-qualified >> keywords...different libraries might want to use the same keyword for >> different purposes and that is fine - no clashes (or at elast I've not >> understood what you mean). >> >> It's my understanding that ::foo has (or should have) actual 'meaning' in >> whatever namespace it exists whereas :foo doesn’t really have any 'meaning'. >> >> I don't really think you want to access your record fields with a >> namespace-qualified keyword, do you? How would that work exactly? what if >> you got an instance of the record outside the namespace where the >> namespace-qualified keyword is defined? It doesn't make sense to me at >> all... >> >> Jim >> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@**googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/**group/clojure?hl=en<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+u...@**googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >> . >> >> >> > -- -- 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.
