If you're passing the var itself, I don't see why you'd need a macro. If you want to check the namespace for a var matching an unquoted symbol, you could do that in a macro.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:29 PM, AtKaaZ <atk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Seems like a good idea to have the root binding be nil. How would you make > it check for bound inside the function? do we need some kind of macro? > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Gary Trakhman <gary.trakh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Why not make the root binding nil? If your decorate function is supposed >> to handle all vars, then they have to deal with the unbound case as that's >> part of the contract of vars. >> >> If it's a generic thing, then maybe make a multimethod or protocol for it. >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:17 PM, AtKaaZ <atk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking something like (def ^:dynamic *a*) where it would make more >>> sense that it's unbound at first >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Jim - FooBar(); >>> <jimpil1...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> I 've found that whenever I get a var-unbound exception it is almost >>>> always my fault and my fault only...why would you do (def a) anyway? >>>> >>>> Jim >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 29/04/13 16:32, AtKaaZ wrote: >>>> >>>>> How do you guys handle the cases when the var is unbound? I mean >>>>> specifically in the cases where you just test if the var is nil. >>>>> >>>>> => (def a) >>>>> #'clojurewerkz.titanium.graph-**test/a >>>>> >>>>> => a >>>>> #<Unbound Unbound: #'clojurewerkz.titanium.graph-**test/a> >>>>> >>>>> => (nil? a) >>>>> false >>>>> >>>>> => (bound? a) >>>>> ClassCastException clojure.lang.Var$Unbound cannot be cast to >>>>> clojure.lang.Var clojure.core/bound?/fn--4837 (core.clj:4954) >>>>> >>>>> => (bound? #'a) >>>>> false >>>>> >>>>> ok imagine the following sample :)) >>>>> >>>>> => (defn decorate [input] >>>>> (when (not (nil? input)) (str "prefix:" input ":suffix"))) >>>>> #'clojurewerkz.titanium.graph-**test/decorate >>>>> >>>>> => (decorate "1") >>>>> "prefix:1:suffix" >>>>> >>>>> => (decorate a) >>>>> "prefix:Unbound: #'clojurewerkz.titanium.graph-**test/a:suffix" >>>>> >>>>> so... fix? >>>>> but more importantly does anyone need to add checks for >>>>> is-the-var-bound in their code where they checked for nil ? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> -- >>>>> 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 - 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