On 11/12/2012 03:01 PM, JvJ wrote:
Metadata is a really useful feature, and it's been helping me a lot. It seems like a flash of genius on the part of Mr. Hickey. I'm wondering if similar concepts exist in other programming languages that inspired it, or if it's unique to Clojure. Just a matter of curiosity, really.
This concept has a long history in Lisps. See Common Lisp's 'property lists' for example.
Ken
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