On 20 June 2013 14:35, Phillip Lord <phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote: > 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.
You get a symbol in both cases, though with a different name: (import java.awt.image.BufferedImage) (class `BufferedImage) ;= clojure.lang.Symbol Cheers, Michał > > 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. > > -- -- 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.
