Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 23:47:07 UTC+2 schrieb Ben Kovitz: > > On May 4, 2016, at 5:28 PM, Johannes <bra...@nordakademie.de <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Maybe you are right. But I've deliberately given function objects to eval > often without any problems until I used functions of some special kind. I > do not understand why the behavior for the 2 versions of the function f- > I've shown is different. > > > Oops, I think I missed the main problem: you were passing a pre-evaluated > map object directly to eval. What eval really wants is the kind of thing > that the reader returns after it reads a string. The reader doesn’t > evaluate symbols, like f-. That’s eval’s job. When the reader sees the > string f-, it returns the symbol f-. You passed eval the actual function > object, not the symbol f-. Eval wants to see the symbol; it will replace > it with the object that it evaluates to. > > In other words, I think you just forgot to quote the expressions that you > were passing to eval. Adding the quote, here’s what I get: > > user=> (def f- (let [v 1 > #_=> f (fn [x] v)] f)) > #'user/f- > > user=> (eval '{:d f-}) > {:d #function[user/fn--10235/f--10236]} > > user=> (def f- (let [v 1 > #_=> f (fn [x] x)] f)) > #'user/f- > > user=> (eval '{:d f-}) > {:d #function[user/fn--10243/f--10244]} > > okay, but why does the following work without quotation? user> (def f- (let [v 1 f (fn [x] x)] f)) ;; => #'user/f- user> (eval {:d f-}) ;; => {:d #function[user/fn--14679/f--14680]} user>
The problem is that the place in my program where I give the map containing the function object to eval, the map cannot be quoted. Johannes -- 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.