On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Chouser <[email protected]> wrote:

> > #^ - metadata
>
> #^ adds metadata at read-time, so there's no way for a function to do
> exactly the same thing, though 'with-meta' does something similar at
> runtime.
>

I've noticed this as well.  It seems to me that this prevents you from
dynamically defining a var (like in a macro) that has metadata attached to
it or it's arguments (if it's a function).  Is there no way around how the
reader works?  Can the reader delay processing #^ until after all macros
have been expanded?  Seems to me it could be useful behavior since one might
want to dynamically create functions with tagged arguments and return values
right?

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