I have been doing some work cleaning up the design and implementation of datatypes and protocols in preparation for the 1.2 release. Some notable changes for those who have been working with the earlier versions:
deftype/reify now take an explicit 'this' argument in method sigs. The :as option is gone. There is a new datatype construct, defrecord. defrecord includes the implementation of persistent map, and the IPersistentMap magic of deftype is gone. deftype and defrecord create named classes, even in non-AOT use. There is no factory fn created, instead you can just call the constructor. The types for defrecord, deftype and definterface are automatically imported into the defining namespace. Substantial performance improvements to extend, and to higher-order use of protocol fns. In addition, I have started documenting these on the clojure.org site, and you should use this documentation instead of the wiki design docs, which will not be maintained. http://clojure.org/protocols http://clojure.org/datatypes Please note that these are just higher-level descriptions, and contain links to the detailed function docs, which are a must-read prior to use. Feedback and errata welcome as always, Rich -- 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
