Thinking about it again,
Is qualifying this as a non-bug, a known limitation the best that can
be said about it ?
Could the implementation be improved to handle this case, or is there
a theoretical reason I've not thought about that prevents doing this
for the general case ?
Thanks,
--
Lauren
Hi Kevin!
Your (let [dummy 0] ...) is a single expression and, as such, is entirely
compiled before being executed.
But to properly compile (add 1 (mul magic x)) 'add need to have a value and it
will not have a value until the (compiled) expression is executed.
So, for this expression, its comp
I have more information on this now, and it is definitely a bug in
Clojure -- defmacro within a let doesn't work correctly. Consider the
following file:
--- BEGIN foo1a.coj ---
(ns com.ksvanhorn.foo1a)
(let [dummy 0]
(defmacro add [& args] `(unchecked-add ~...@args))
(defmacro mul [& args]
