Pulling my hair out with swank-clojure...

2010-05-04 Thread Patrick Stein
I've spent most of the afternoon trying to get swank-clojure to work for me. I tried ELPA. I tried Lein. I tried directly pulling in the git repositories. No matter what I try, I get the following: java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: with-bindings in this context (basic.clj:469

Re: "special form" vs. "macro"

2010-05-31 Thread Patrick Stein
Maybe Clojure uses the term "special form" differently than Common Lisp does, but here's how to think of "special form" in the Common Lisp sense. A form that is *NOT* a special form like (F A B C D ...) will either evaluate: 1. (SYMBOL-FUNCTION F), then A, B, C, D, ... in order from left-to- righ