On Mar 17, 11:00 am, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 17.03.2011 um 18:11 schrieb Alan:
>
> > From my uninformed position, strint looks like it should have been
> > written as a function, not a macro, but probably there are reasons it
> > was not.
>
> It can't be „simply“ a function, because then it has no access to the local
> environment.
>
> (let [x 99]
> (<< "~x bottles of beer"))
>
> This does not work if << is a function. You could imagine a function taking a
> map with bindings.
>
> (<< "~x bottles of beer" {:x 99})
>
> But then: why not use format in the first place?
>
> Sincerely
> Meikel
See? Told you there was an excellent reason I was wrong!
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