keywords & symbols as proper types is probably not far off and optimizing them doesn't need to wait for a general whole program optimization strategy.
David On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Herwig Hochleitner <hhochleit...@gmail.com>wrote: > Encoding Keywords as Strings is a performance optimization in > clojurescript. > js/String is in fact extended to IFn to make it work > https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/blob/master/src/cljs/cljs/core.cljs#L1795 > > I don't think it is an immutable design choice, but a replacement with > interned Keyword objects would need to stand up against the current > solution, performance wise. > My feeling is that this could be tackled as soon as we have a stategy for > whole program optimization, so that we could intern keywords at compile > time. > > > 2012/11/26 Krukow <karl.kru...@gmail.com> > >> Hi, >> I'm writing my first ClojureScript program. I defined a protocol for a >> query language which I wanted to extend to various data types, including >> keywords. >> >> However keywords are strings when it comes to dispatch. Is this a bug, or >> by design? >> >> ClojureScript:cljs.user> (defprotocol Foo (-a [x] "sample")) >> nil >> ClojureScript:cljs.user> (extend-protocol Foo >> Keyword >> (-a [x] (print "keyword"))) >> #< >> function (x) { >> return cljs.core.print.call(null, "keyword"); >> } >> > >> ClojureScript:cljs.user> (-a :foo) >> "Error evaluating:" (-a :foo) :as "cljs.user._a.call(null,\"\\** >> uFDD0'foo\");\n" >> org.mozilla.javascript.**JavaScriptException: Error: No protocol method >> Foo.-a defined for type string: ?'foo (<cljs repl>#22) >> at <cljs repl>:22 (anonymous) >> at <cljs repl>:14 (_a) >> at <cljs repl>:7 (anonymous) >> at <cljs repl>:7 >> >> >> If I extend to js/String it works. >> >> -- >> 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 > > > -- > 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 > -- 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