I don't know CL that well myself, but I think the convention is to use
+ for constants (i.e. defconst) where * is used for global variables
(i.e. defparameter).  In that case the + convention doesn't really
make sense in clojure as it doesn't have any notion of a constant
reference type.

--Darren


On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Chouser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Mark Volkmann
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I think that's supposed to be + instead of *, at least Common Lisp
>> seems to use +.
>
> I meant *  -- I don't know CL at all, but the *asterisk* form is used
> frequently in clojure.core, while no +plus+ form ever appears.  I also
> was careful to refer to the global nature of the Vars, not anything
> about const-ness.
>
> --Chouser
>
> >
>

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