Your post is nice but does not at all talk about the issue I am presenting. I know metadata is attached to the form reader reads and not to the evaled result of that form. My issue is of the evaluation of the metadata map itself.
Best, Jozef On Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:50:38 AM UTC+2, spencer wrote: > > I wrote a blog post about this last year: > http://spencertipping.com/posts/2012.0819.clojure-metadata.html > > On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:09:11 PM UTC-7, Jozef Wagner wrote: >> >> I have a hard time understanding the rules for the evaluation of the >> metadata in the reader. Following example illustrates this: >> >> (let [x :foo >> v1 (quote ^{x 4} [1 2 3]) >> v2 ^{x 4} [1 2 3]] >> (println (meta v1) v1) >> (println (meta v2) v2)) >> >> prints >> >> {x 4} [1 2 3] >> {:foo 4} [1 2 3]. >> >> Is it a desired behavior that reader is influenced by whether it reads >> inside a quoted form? Even strangely, >> >> (let [x :foo >> v1 (quote ^{x 4} []) >> v2 ^{x 4} []] >> (println (meta v1) v1) >> (println (meta v2) v2)) >> >> prints >> >> nil [] >> {:foo 4} [] >> >> Best, >> JW >> >> -- -- 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.
