On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:23 PM, John Harrop <jharrop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Richard Newman <holyg...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> > Maybe this ought to be fixed; i.e., if the reader sees #^{meta} 'foo
>> > it applies the metadata to foo first, then quotes it, resulting in
>> > the same thing as (quote #^{meta} foo).
>>
>> Why introduce that special case, when you can simply do the second?
>>
>> I don't support the view that it's OK for programmers to not know what
>> they're doing, which in this case means knowing that 'foo reads as
>> (quote foo).
>
>
> I'm not advocating in favor of programmers not knowing what they're doing.
> I'm advocating in favor of avoiding as many subtle gotchas as possible.
>
Interestingly, you can do what I suggested manually:
user=> (meta '#^{:foo 1}foo)
{:foo 1}
It's a bit ugly, but it works.
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