On 27.04.2010, at 14:45, Rich Hickey wrote:

> I agree. I asked for suggestions for the factory fn in #clojure, but got some 
> pushback against introducing things in the namespace. I'm still open to 
> suggestions, here are the issues:
> 
> The generated type name is now imported, so at the very least the factory fn 
> can't have the same name as the class. Alternatives are create-Foo etc.

How about providing the name of a factory function via an option, with no 
factory as the default? Something like

(defrecord Foo
  [bar baz]
  :factory create-Foo)

This would avoid the creation of vars that are not explicitly named in the 
code, and thus bad surprises.

Konrad.

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