I am not aware of any JIRA ticket for this, but there could be one lurking there somewhere.
Here is a link to a previous discussion about it on this group: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/r_ym-h53f1E/y1S31QXNhcAJ Andy On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Leon Grapenthin <grapenthinl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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>: >> >>> 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. > -- 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.
