On Nov 13, 9:03 am, MikeM <michael.messini...@invista.com> wrote:
> > (deftype Foo [a b c])
>
> > (defprotocol P (bar [x] "bar docs"))
>
> > (extend ::Foo P {:bar (fn [afoo] :foo-thing)})
>
> A common error may be to:
>
> (extend Foo P {:bar (fn [afoo] :foo-thing)})
>
> when (extend ::Foo ... is intended. I notice that (extend Foo...
> doesn't throw - should extend check that it is supplied a class,
> intfc, or keyword and throw if something else is supplied?

Yes it could.

> Alternately, could extend be changed to allow (extend Foo ... and do
> the right thing ? ie determine that Foo is the constructor function
> for a type and do the extension for the type Foo.

Dunno yet - there isn't a path from the factory fn value to its name
or deftype.

Rich

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