On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Stefan Arentz <ste...@arentz.ca> wrote:
> On 2009-11-07, at 8:28 PM, John Harrop wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Stefan Arentz <ste...@arentz.ca>
> > wrote:
> > But I'm using this in a bigger macro that takes a bunch of functions
> > as a parameter. Is there a way to make this work or should I
> > 'translate' the functions that I take by name with (var foo)?
> >
> > You'll need to translate the symbols into vars using resolve, I think.
>
> Hmmm
>
> user=> (var foo)
> #'user/foo
>
> user=> (meta (var foo))
> {:ns #<Namespace user>, :name foo, :file "NO_SOURCE_FILE", :line
> 1, :arglists ([]), :xxx 1}
>
> user=> ((var foo))
> "foo"
>
> I'll give this a try in my macro later today :-)
Eh. `(var ~argument) should work. You'll need resolve if you ever want to do
this in a function though, or use the var object in the macro body itself
(as opposed to only using the var object in the code that results from the
macro's expansion).
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