On Apr 13, 5:14 pm, Alex Osborne <a...@meshy.org> wrote: > Travis <twell...@gmail.com> writes: > > I'm just curious where those numbers come from. For example, if I > > compile the class bar.clj containing: > > > (ns bar) > > (defn foo [] > > nil) > > > I'll get three classes, one of which is: > > > bar$foo__5.class > > The numbers are just a global incrementing counter (the same one used > for gensym). The reason for them is to make the names of the classes > unique, for example you can define your function foo twice: > > (defn foo [] > nil) > > (def baz foo) > > (defn foo [] > 5) > > A more common example is anonymous functions (fn [] ...). These all > have the same name "fn", but they obviously need to be written to > different class files.
Thanks Alex, I wonder if it would be possible to specify that name with metadata and allow for throwing an exception if it's not unique. I found where this seems to happen in the code but it looks like a real investment to figure it out and make changes. I may come back to it at some point soon anyway. http://github.com/richhickey/clojure/blob/4f6fda54954fe7407967d65a5518906453312395/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Compiler.java#LID5877 -- 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, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
