Hi all, I've been reading about the changes to Clojure that are occurring with regards to improving performance of arithmetic operations. For example, + no longer auto promotes and +' has been introduced as an auto-promoting addition operator.
The idea of introducing additional syntax is a bit odd to me, so I had thought that it could be solved by setting an environmental variable for the namespace and the use of macros. For example, maybe set *enhanced-primitive-support* true or false will determine the behavior of the operators (+, -, etc.) for an entire namespace. If a user wants a different set of behaviors for a block of code in that namespaces, they could wrap the code in a macro called something like enhanced-primitive-support or old-primitive-support: (enhanced-primitive-support (+ a b) ) I was wondering why an approach like this was not taken? Thanks, RJ -- 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
