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Method Values
Pseudo-random ramblings from Fogus.
Importantly, Clojure already knew how to resolve class names in symbol prefixes, so moving to this cleaner syntax allowed us to leverage existing code-paths. However, this approach is not conducive to programmatic generation (i.e. in macros) as it requires symbolic munging and deconstruction by every programmer who wants to deal with method values. These capabilities allow programmers to param-tags to convey their intent for a specific arity and the minimum types to resolve to a single method signature.
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