Just to clarify, * is a legal character in any symbol in Clojure. There seems to be a growing convention of having a function foo* and a macro foo which does the same thing but with some syntactic sugar. I believe this practice originates from, or at least was widely publicized by, Christophe Grand's "DSL not= macros" talk : http://blip.tv/clojure/christophe-grand-not-dsl-macros-4540700 in which he advocates adding macros at the very last stage if at all, because functions compose better.
In any case, it is just a convention, so you should not assume it always holds. On 28 February 2013 12:04, Chris Ford <christophertf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sometimes people separate a macro into the macro itself, and a normal > function that does the actual work. > > The normal function often has the same name as the macro but with a * > suffix. > > Chris > > > On 28 February 2013 13:38, Dave Sann <daves...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I see cases of * after function names. >> >> Can anyone enlighten me as to the specific meaning of this, if any. >> >> Is it specific to some clojure uses or more widely employed. >> >> thanks >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> -- >> 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > -- > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
