On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:47 AM, iamcreasy quazir...@gmail.com wrote:
Sort of. You can create a macro with defmacro, which like a special
form controls the evaluation of its arguments instead of the arguments
being evaluated first and the function only getting the results.
Things like - and
Sort of. You can create a macro with defmacro, which like a special
form controls the evaluation of its arguments instead of the arguments
being evaluated first and the function only getting the results.
Things like - and defn are macros:
That means, the difference of composite form and
Sort of. You can create a macro with defmacro, which like a special
form controls the evaluation of its arguments instead of the arguments
being evaluated first and the function only getting the results.
Things like - and defn are macros:
That means, the difference of composite form and
In page 19 of Pratical Clojure by Luke VanderHart Stuart Sierra,
Chapter 2, there is a paragraph,
Special forms definition : Special forms are a particular type of
composite form. For most purposes, they are used very similarly to a
function call. The difference is that the first form of a
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:15 PM, iamcreasy quazir...@gmail.com wrote:
1st question,
Is the form word is a typo here? Isn't the word will be item? If not,
is def a form? That means, this code contains 3 forms. :-s
Technically, anything that can be evaluated is a form. A composite
form is