Re: PATCH: Make name accept String

2008-11-11 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Drew Raines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I may be missing some philosophical significance of the name > function, but is there any reason why it can't work on Strings as > well as Named-s? Hi, I think the philosophical point is that a String doesn't have a name,

PATCH: Make name accept String

2008-11-11 Thread Drew Raines
I may be missing some philosophical significance of the name function, but is there any reason why it can't work on Strings as well as Named-s? user=> (name :foo) "foo" user=> (name "foo") "foo" This would clean up conditionals I have scattered about where I normalize heterogeneous collections of