Hi, I'm new to Clojure, not new to lisp (CL and scheme), and having a thoroughly good time. I've been having a go at the new deftype stuff and using a clone of the new branch from the git repository (up-to- date as of this message being posted). So far everything I've tried has worked very nicely, except for one thing.
I've put three files up as a gist: http://gist.github.com/250364 that illustrate (I hope) my question. So. I've defined a type 'Foo -- inevitably foo, sorry -- and I want to define a very simple multimethod that dispatches on the class of its single argument. I understand that defmethod needs a fully ns qualified name to dispatch properly. I was hoping there was a shorter way of doing this than play.foo.Foo, maybe using some sort of alias- based technique like those in Stuary Halloway's book (p233 and thereabout). I've got six variations in there, and I know full well that most of these should not work, but I put them in anyway. I believe that I'm AOT compiling everything (I'm compiling the ./src/ play/foo.clj file and the class files are on disk, so...) It turns out that dispatching on play.foo.Foo is the only way that works. I was hoping ::f/Foo or f/Foo would work too (maybe my alias is wrong??). Especially since, with aliasing in the user namespace, I can create a play.foo.Foo using f/Foo Obviously, I have a workaround, but that's going to get ugly fast with a real namespace name, not to mention making re-naming the namespace harder than it should be. If someone could help me out I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Bob ---- Bob Hutchison Recursive Design Inc. http://www.recursive.ca/ weblog: http://www.recursive.ca/hutch -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
