I usually work around this by putting the dispatch in a separate def and referencing the var within defmulti.
(defmulti my-multi #'my-dispatch) It's barely slower for the extra var dereference and very convenient for development. On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:10 PM hiskennyness <kentil...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just killed two hours trying to figure out why my tweaks to the dispatch > function of defmulti did not work. Finally got the feeling I had found a > bug in Clojure, but then I found a comment somewhere saying it is a > feature, effectively a defonce (and, yes, looking at the source I see it > does not do anything if it is already defined). > > Shucks, could we get a warning or some doc on this? > > But I am a Lisper, I am used to this. The classic is the initform to a > class-allocated variable in defclass. :) > > -kt > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
