Point taken about the names, thanks for the feedback. Since Clojure already uses defn and fn, defnk and fnk seemed natural. But maybe defn-keyword and fn-keyword would be better.
I really like this idea. Do you have a Common Lisp port of this, out of curiosity? If not I might have to see what I can come up with. :-)
I like to have fully expanded names, ala Common Lisp. My editor will autocomplete those on demand after I use a name once, so it's not a hindrance to reading or writing.
My goal for identifiers is that I can read without consulting my internal lookup table.
Thanks! Nope, no common lisp port -- and we haven't released the Clojure yet, but plan to soon. It's only 150 lines of code or so should be easy to port or rewrite from scratch.
There was a defnk at one time in one of the Clojure libraries (I think it was even created by Rich himself), but it disappeared at some point. Nathan Marz created a defnk macro in Storm that he uses for the same thing. Maybe it's time for Clojure to bring defnk back if it offers some advantages over the :keys destructuring.
I like to have fully expanded names, ala Common Lisp. My editor will autocomplete those on demand after I use a name once, so it's not a hindrance to reading or writing.
My goal for identifiers is that I can read without consulting my internal lookup table.