Sometimes you do want a mutable thing with thread-local binding, noir does
this for it's mutable session-flash stuff:
https://github.com/noir-clojure/lib-noir/blob/master/src/noir/session.clj#L95
I don't really recommend the approach, but I could see it being convenient.
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1
On Saturday, May 3, 2014 10:53:40 AM UTC-4, Bob Hutchison wrote:
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>
> On May 3, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Dave Tenny >
> wrote:
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> I'm still struggling with how to write the most readable, simple clojure
> code
> to deal with dynamically bindings.
>
> What is the graceful clojure equivalent of common l
re: binding behavior, I've only been using clojure since 1.5.1, but in my
travels I get the impression that the binding form didn't always enforce
the variable to be declared dynamic, and so maybe didn't behave the way
you'd expect if the ^:dynamic was missing from the target of the binding
form.
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Bob Hutchison wrote:
> You can also just use ‘def’ to redefine the global binding.
Thanks, though in this case it's a mixed use. In some cases I want to
change the root of the global binding, in others I want to rebind to a new
value in some context without cha
On May 3, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Dave Tenny wrote:
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> The way I'm tempted to do this in clojure is
>
> (def ^{:dynamic true} *x* (atom 1))
> ... do stuff with @*x* ...
> (reset! *x* 2)
> ... do stuff with @*x* ...
> (binding [*x* (atom 3)] (do stuff with @*x*))
Having also come from Common Lisp a
On May 3, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Dave Tenny wrote:
> I'm still struggling with how to write the most readable, simple clojure code
> to deal with dynamically bindings.
>
> What is the graceful clojure equivalent of common lisp special variables for
> the following scenario.
>
> If I were writing c
