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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Timothy Washington <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Kevin, thanks for getting back to me.
>
> The splice is 'etal' (which is null). I should have excluded it for
> clarity. What you're actually seeing is the map being unquoted:
> user=> `(commands/add ~processed ~@etal)
> (commands/add {:tag :user, :username "stub" ... }) ;; 'etal' does not show
> up in what gets evaluated - ** first in this list is a function
>
> Now, if I try to eval that, I get the said error.
> user=> (eval `(commands/add ~processed))
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong number of args (3) passed to:
> PersistentArrayMap (NO_SOURCE_FILE:324)
>
> And I had tried macroexpand (here and in the containing function), and got
> the same error:
> user=> (macroexpand (eval `(commands/add ~processed)))
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong number of args (3) passed to:
> PersistentArrayMap (NO_SOURCE_FILE:324)
>
> You're right that the repl is using the map as a function. But I don't
> understand why when 'commands/add' function was the first thing in the
> return list. And macroexpand is yielding the same error . This is what had
> me so perplexed. Thanks again for the feedback. It's something small that
> I'm missing.
> Tim
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Kevin Downey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> your map is being spliced in to the output, but your output contains
>> lists (...) which are interpreted as functions, and the first thing in
>> the list is a map, makes take 1-2 args, your list forms with maps as
>> the operator have more that 2 args. please use macroexpand.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Timothy Washington <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> >
>
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