> Seems to me that if you're going to use metadata to communicate intention
> about dynamic binding in *one* way of creating a new var, you should do it
> with *all* ways of creating a new var.
And you may be right. My point was that a var's dynamic nature is part
of its state: it's primarily da
On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Armando Blancas wrote:
>> The metadata tells you why:
>>
>> user=> (meta #'*dynamo*)
>> {:ns #, :name *dynamo*, :dynamic true, :line 1, :file
>> ...}
>
> The var tells you why:
> user=> (.isDynamic (var *dynamo*))
> true
The mere human who has not read Var
> The metadata tells you why:
>
> user=> (meta #'*dynamo*)
> {:ns #, :name *dynamo*, :dynamic true, :line 1, :file ...}
The var tells you why:
user=> (.isDynamic (var *dynamo*))
true
>
> Now let's make another variable with `intern`, copying the metadata from
> `*dynamo*`:
> user=> (
Consider this ordinary way of defining a dynamic variable:
user=> (def ^:dynamic *dynamo* 3)
As you'd expect, you can rebind:
user=> (binding [*dynamo* "new value"] *dynamo*)
"new value"
The metadata tells you why:
user=> (meta #'*dynamo*)
{:ns #, :name *dynamo*, :dynamic t
