If you really wan't to go that way you can also choose to remove the namespaces: (defn describe-path [[where what]] (map (comp symbol name) `(there is a ~what going ~where from here.)))
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:17 AM, alux <alu...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > >> But using symbols for something like this is a bit contrived anyway. > > Yes, But sometimes it needs contrived examples to get the message. > Especially if you have misleading preconceptions. And to me, symbols > had always been a way to refer to stuff. And only that. That had to be > shaken an is now. > > (Like the old hastable example: A consistent implementation is > returning a constant. Thats slow and doesnt scale, but it's > consistent. To me thats been illuminating.) > > Many thanks to all for the discussion. > > alux > > On 18 Mrz., 23:21, Richard Newman <holyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> But using symbols for something like this is a bit contrived anyway. > > > > > Maybe, but I've seen it in other Common Lisp books/tutorials before. > > > e.g. I'm sure PAIP was one of them. > > > > Part of the motivation is that CL symbols always compare with EQ and > > EQL, whilst strings are not required to do so: > > > > cl-user(9): (eq (concatenate 'string "foo" "bar") "foobar") > > nil > > > > This means you can use nice constructs such as CASE with symbols, but > > you need to roll your own using string-equal or string= to handle > > strings. > > > > (Using symbols also saves you typing all those double-quote > > characters, as well as saving memory and computation during > > comparison: symbols are interned, unlike strings.) > > > > In Clojure (thanks to Java's immutable interned strings) strings > > compare efficiently with = just like everything else, so there's less > > motivation. > > -- > 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<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > -- Professional: http://cgrand.net/ (fr) On Clojure: http://clj-me.cgrand.net/ (en) -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
