Different topic, but are you talking about fields in a record defined via defrecord? I thought those fields were not hidden (i.e. 'public'). "Encapsulation of information is folly" as it says here: http://clojure.org/datatypes.
I agree with your point. Maybe a wee bit of encapsulation of information isn't always folly! Steve On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On 17 Aug., 04:40, cageface <milese...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm not entirely sure how to interpret this. If a function is > > expecting a certain argument structure, isn't it always better to > > document that in a destructuring argument list? I'm finding that > > destructured signatures generally help me track my dataflow better. > > Can somebody elucidate this distinction a bit? > > It can overspecify things. Consider private fields of a record. The > user should not fiddle with these, but you might well access them in > your function. That you do so should be not of interest to the caller. > Specifying it in the argument list would actually expose the caller to > the details. So the details become part of the contract and you cannot > change the internal workings of your library anymore. > > Sincerely > Meikel > > -- > 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 > -- 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
