Let me clarify. If the library's designed to interoperate specifically with a particular record type, it should be designed with knowledge of the base keys. Even then, its own keys should be ns-qualified. And it can't assume the set of base keys won't grow in a future version of the record type. But it might conceivably use base keys to do things that are specific to that record type, e.g.:
(defn fancy-third-party-transform [point] (Point. (funky-fn-x (:x point) (:y point)) (funky-fn-y (:x point) (:y point)))) If the library's designed to interoperate with generic maps of outside origin, it can't assume anything about how those maps might be used with regard to keys outside of its own namespace. Non-caller-supplied keys should be qualified. On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Simon Katz <nomisk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 21:08:22 UTC+1, Cedric Greevey wrote: > >> If a third-party library is storing things in your defrecord, it behooves >> its author to know what that record's predefined keys are. >> > > Um, I don't think I agree. The library might be doing something very > generic and have no reason to know anything about the defrecord. > > >> In fact, if a third-party library is putting (its own, rather than >> caller-supplied) keys into caller-supplied maps, it behooves it to use >> qualified keys. :) >> > > Yes. I can imagine libraries that don't do this, though, and it might not > be obvious that's the case without inspecting a library very carefully. > > -- > -- > 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. > > > -- -- 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.
