Hi, 2013/9/20 Phillip Lord <phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk>
> > (def bob3 3) > > introduces a new symbol, I am struggling to see why > > (intern 'user 'bob3 3) > > cannot be recognised similarly. > Because intern happens at runtime. It's a normal function. The above intern call is easily translated to the def. intern is only interesting when bob3 is computed based on runtime information, which is not available at compile time. But then the compile cannot special case it anyway. Meikel -- -- 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.
