Oh yeah, how sneaky. In one case, you get a class, in the other, you get a symbol. Backtick is doing quite a bit more than letting you unquote and splice.
Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com> writes: > Thank you for this, you just fixed a bug for me :-) > > I was trying to do some tricky type hinting with definline using amolloy's > great answer <http://stackoverflow.com/a/11920022> on StackOverflow. Notice > that he uses `BufferedImage and not 'BufferedImage. I stupidly figured that > this was just a typo due to force of habit or similar and switched to using > quote, and discovered that I had problems when BufferedImage wasn't > imported when the inlined version of the function was called. Turns out > that ` expands an imported class name to the fully qualified name, whereas > ' does not. > > (import java.awt.image.BufferedImage) > => #=java.awt.image.BufferedImage > `BufferedImage > => java.awt.image.BufferedImage > 'BufferedImage > => BufferedImage > > Mea culpa. I'm not sure I would ever have made this connection, very timely > - thank you. > > Cheers, > Colin > > > On 19 June 2013 20:46, Phillip Lord <phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote: > >> >> >> >> So, I was thinking that ' and ` were basically the same, unless a ~ was >> involved somewhere. But I have discovered this. >> >> >> >> (ns john) >> >> (println '(paul)) >> (println `(paul)) >> >> >> ;;=> >> (paul) >> (john/paul) >> >> With the ' paul is not namespace qualified, while with the ` paul is. >> >> >> Turns out to be a bit of a pain, actually, although I have worked around >> it. But mostly I am surprised. Is this expected? >> >> Phil >> >> -- >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> > > -- -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, twitter: phillord NE1 7RU -- -- 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.
