On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Chouser <chou...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe the idiom for global values like this is to place asterisks > around the name.
I thought the asterisk convention was for variables intended for dynamic binding. It took me a minute to figure out where I got that idea. "Programming Clojure" suggests it (without quite saying it) in chapter 6, section 3. "Vars intended for dynamic binding are sometimes called special vari- ables. It is good style to name them with leading and trailing asterisks." Obviously the book's a work in progress, but that does sound reasonable. A special convention for variables whose values change (or that my code's welcome to rebind) seems more useful to me than one for "globals" (though I'm not sure I'd consider something like grid-size for a given application a global). Based on ants.clj it appears Rich doesn't feel there needs to be a special naming convention for that sort of value. What's your read on that, Chouser? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
