Why should they have any sort of naming scheme? Dynamic vars are unusual because their values can change. Atoms and refs remain the same, and even though inside their values mutate, they don't affect the outer var.
- James On 5 December 2015 at 21:39, Mars0i <marsh...@logical.net> wrote: > Does anyone want to suggest or promote a naming convention for atoms, > refs, and agents, i.e. some of things that you can dereference with @ i.e. > deref? > > (Also, what about futures, delays, and promises? I think of these as > playing a different sort of role, even though deref works with them, too.) > > The Clojure style guide > <https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide#naming> says: > > Use *earmuffs* for things intended for rebinding (ie. are dynamic). > > ;; good > (def ^:dynamic *a* 10) > > > It could be reasonable to use earmuffs for atoms, etc., too, but I think > that "@*my-atom*" is ugly because of the juxtaposed @-sign and asterisk, > and in any event I think of rebinding as a different kind of thing from > what happens with atoms/refs/agents. > > -- > 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.
