Do you have a link to the discussion? Is this really the reasoning? I find it insufficient, because there aren't many defs supporting private :
def, defn, defmacro and definline if I am remembering correctly. I am kind of tired of writing def ^:private. def- would really be nice to have. defmacro- as well. Is there a JIRA ticket about this? On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 4:36:44 PM UTC+2, Herwig Hochleitner wrote: > > 2015-05-07 16:12 GMT+02:00 Stig Brautaset <sbrau...@gmail.com > <javascript:>>: > >> Is it because the def form can also be ^:dynamic? >> > Hm, cognitect turned it down, because basically "if you go down this road, > why stop with def- ? and before you know, you've got a core namespace full > of def*-" > >> At any rate, I did an attempt at my first macro to create a (def- ...) >> form, but it doesn't seem to work. Can you not attach metadata in a macro? >> > You can, but it works differently than in normal source. Remember, that ^ > attaches metadata the literal, that you annotate. so ^:private ~sym is the > symbol ~sym with a private metadata key. The quasiquoting, however, > rebuilds the form and inserts the sym parameter in place of the ~sym form. > So to attach the metadata to actual def'ed symbol, you need to attach it to > the output, the macro generates, like this: `(def ~(with-meta sym {:private > true}) ...) > -- 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/d/optout.