Show HN: Clojure Redis pubsub client with keep-alive heart beats

Post by ryanbertrand » Sun, May 06, 2018, 8:12 AM UTC

Post by ryanbertrand » Sun, May 06, 2018, 9:57 AM UTC

aravind_b wrote: post #3

ryanbertrand wrote: post #2

Very nice! Quick observation, what is the purpose of the # suffix on your variables? I haven’t seen this much and would like to know what it signals, etc.

Thanks! If you are referring to the # in this area of the code - https://github.com/aravindbaskaran/redis-pubsub/blob/master/... - then that refers to a Clojure macros autogensym for symbols created within the macro. If the # is removed, the symbol is resolved from the top namespace where the macro expands. If you are up for some more reading on the weird symbols of Clojure, I have it here - https://hackernoon.com/cl…