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Issues: https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/CLJ | Guide: https://insideclojure.org/2015/05/01/contributing-clojure/
borkdude 2020-01-24T11:05:50.000400Z
why is the interface IRef used here? It seems it only needs IDeref?
https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/653b8465845a78ef7543e0a250078eea2d56b659/src/jvm/clojure/lang/MultiFn.java#L21
2020-01-24T11:26:38.000900Z
does IRef predate IDeref?
borkdude 2020-01-24T11:29:41.001100Z
seems it does
alexmiller 2020-01-24T13:39:38.002400Z
It seems like no matter how small you make an interface, you later on find a use case that only needs part of it
alexmiller 2020-01-24T13:40:04.003100Z
That is, the ideal number of methods on an interface seems to be 1
p-himik 2020-01-24T13:43:49.003600Z
Or <= 1 (`clojure.lang.{IRecord,IType,MapEquivalence,Sequential,etc}`) :)
alexmiller 2020-01-24T14:00:38.004400Z
I'd still say the ideal is 1 - marker interfaces not being much of an affordance to do stuff, just to annotate stuff
2020-01-24T15:34:59.004700Z
too bad you can’t have negative interfaces - only define what you can’t do
2020-01-24T15:35:10.004900Z
perhaps the ideal number would be -1