On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:57 AM, .Bill Smith <william.m.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure could. And you don't want to do this if brownFox is a function:
>
> (Label. brownFox)
>
> If you really want it to be a function, you could do the following, but I
> think it would complicate things unnecessarily:
>
> (Label. (brownFox))
I can think of at least one good reason for this: i18n. The initial
implementation of brownFox may be
(defn brownFox [] "The quick brown fox...")
but the idea might be to eventually change that to
(def bundle (atom nil))
(defn get-in-bundle [^String key]
(swap! bundle
#(if %
%
(with-open [in (reader-on blah blah blah)]
(PropertiesResourceBundle. in))))
(.handleGetObject ^PropertiesResourceBundle @bundle key))
(defn brownFox []
(get-in-bundle "fox.brown"))
or something similar.
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