On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Brian Marick <mar...@exampler.com> wrote:
> ** It could mean "there are no nasty surprises here". I vividly remember > debugging a Smalltalk program and discovering what I'd been ignoring as a > simple getter actually had hundreds of lines of code behind it. Using a > keyword as a getter wouldn't have misled me so. (:start voyage) also makes > it clear that the code is fast, whereas (start voyage) allows for anything - > perhaps a leisurely calculation involving database queries. > FWIW, that's what I take it to mean. If I see (start voyage) I assume start is a function that "does something" to voyage to return a value. If I see (:start voyage) it conveys both the simple accessor and "voyage is a map-like structure" which is potentially useful in understanding the code (without that hint, voyage is some opaque data structure). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- 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
