The comment macro is delightfully simple.
(defmacro comment
"Ignores body, yields nil"
{:added "1.0"}
[& body])
Can this be modified to censor out words? For example, can I replace my colleague's constant use of "f***" in the comment macro just by editing the comment macro itself? Or will the comment macro's inherent non-evaluation of its body stop my little prank?
Example: I want to change (comment I f***ing hate this code) to (comment I ducking hate this code).
The comment already censors everything - the result of its evaluation is nil.
Looks like you want to rewrite the source code instead of changing how clojure treats the body of the comment. Sometimes teams run code formatter as a pre-commit hook. It should not be hard to replace all occurences of f*** with duck with a sed command and set it as a pre-commit hook.
Alternative approach is to setup git filter that on checkout replaces duck with f*** and on commit converts back. This way repository will be censored but local representation can be with profanity. https://www.agwa.name/projects/git-crypt/ uses this approach to keep local files decrypted but encrypted on remote.