At the risk of repeating what you already said, we are pushing too much stuff onto vars and var meta. We have namespaced names so there's no reason to push more stuff into vars and we can use an independent registry.
On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 8:57:47 AM UTC-6, kovasb wrote: > > Spec is surprisingly easy to grok given how much it does. > > s/def jumped out at me as an out-of-the-box choice, that I could not > immediately rationalize. > > So I'm wondering: why not just use standard def? What does one gain/lose? > > This is not just an academic question. Lots of people like me look at > Clojure's APIs as an example to follow, so now I'm wondering when I should > make the same choice. > > I asked Rich about this at the Lisp NYC meetup, the response was to the > effect of "vars are already overloaded, lets use a separate database", > which makes sense but the implications of that are not clicking. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
