In 1.9 there is a new ident? function which covers keywords and symbols. If
you want to include strings, you would have to make that yourself though.
On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 9:44:55 AM UTC-6, Dave Tenny wrote:
>
> I've occasionally wanted this and haven't found it.
>
> (defn named?
> "True if object is compatible with the 'name' function.
> There must be a clojure built-in to do this but I haven't figured it out
> yet."
> [x]
> (or (string? x)
> (keyword? x)
> (symbol? x)))
>
>
> Note that simply doing (instance? clojure.lang.Named x) won't work for
> strings, but the (name) function does.
>
> Anyway, I'm thinking there's a built in way to do this without defining
> the above function. Suggestions?
>
> My use case is simply that I want to call the name function for objects
> that support it in a translation function.
>
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