What's the convention for using an asterisk at the end of a function name in Clojure and other Lisp dialects?
问题 Note that I'm not talking about ear muffs in symbol names, an issue that is discussed at Conventions, Style, and Usage for Clojure Constants? and How is the `*var-name*` naming-convention used in clojure?. I'm talking strictly about instances where there is some function named foo that then calls a function foo*. 回答1: In Clojure it basically means "foo* is like foo, but somehow different, and you probably want foo". In other words, it means that the author of that code couldn't come up with a