Yes, it's about the size of a compilation unit and how to handle undefined
references. Rich Hickey posted this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467359
detailing the trade-offs involved in choosing Clojure's strategy.
-S
On Sunday, December 7, 2014 9:37:40 AM UTC-5, Ashton Kemerling wrote:
Clojure, like most lisps, is designed around a REPL. So the highest compilation
unit isn't a file, but a top level definition like defn or defmacro.
While the comparison isn't perfect, compilation in a lot of lisps is a lot like
piping a file into an active REPL, at least from a user's perspect
Considering Clojure has a compile phase why is it more dependent on
function definition order than scripting languages like Perl? My naive
assumption is that one of the benefits of a compile phase is that every
definition is defined ahead of runtime.
gvim
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