Alex, On the Dev list, you mentioned you had discussed this several times with Rich and others, but were unable to reach concensus. May I ask what the hangup is (i.e., what reservations / objections were expressed) and what other options came out of those discussions?
Nathan Davis On Friday, May 27, 2016 at 7:39:15 AM UTC-5, Alex Miller wrote: > > That is one option and is in the ballpark of > http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1750. > > On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 11:47:09 PM UTC-5, Nathan Davis wrote: >> >> I can't reply to the thread on the Dev list, but here's my take. >> >> Unless I'm missing something, it seems to me that most these issues could >> be resolved by having a dynamic var that gets set during macro expansion >> according to the target platform. For instance, *compiler-target* is >> set to :clj or :cljs, depending on whether we're compiler for the JVM or >> Javascript. If we want to be a little more sophisticated, >> *compiler-target* could be a set whose members are the same keywords >> that were "active" at read-time. That would have the additional >> convenience that *compiler-target* would act as a predicate, indicating >> whether a particular "feature" is available for the target platform. >> >> Then if a macro needs to be expanded in a certain way for certain >> platforms, it can just consult *compiler-target*. >> >> Anyway, that's my 2-cents. >> >> Nathan Davis >> >> >> On Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 5:57:14 PM UTC-5, Herwig Hochleitner wrote: >>> >>> This thread just came up, while I was in the process of composing a mail >>> on this topic to clojure-dev: >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure-dev/f6ULUVokXrU/3uue5okSAgAJ >>> >>> 2016-05-20 23:22 GMT+02:00 Dan Burton <danburt...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> What about something like >>>> >>>> (def obj #?(:clj Object :cljs js/Object)) >>>> >>> >>> Unfortunately, doesn't work for cases, where you need to generate >>> different syntax, eg `(try .. (catch Throwable e ...))` vs `(try ... (catch >>> :default e ...))`. >>> >>> -- 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.
