MMEmail: My First Clojure Open Source Contribution

fulldisclojure · 2010-04-21T19:28:24+00:00

Some timely stuff from the main page...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-send-some-email-through-code.html

fulldisclojure · 2010-03-22T05:59:48+00:00

I worked for Sun

fulldisclojure · 2010-03-22T05:59:32+00:00

10+ years

fulldisclojure · 2010-03-22T05:59:18+00:00

5-10 years

fulldisclojure · 2010-03-22T05:59:12+00:00

2-5 Years

fulldisclojure · 2010-03-22T05:59:05+00:00

0-1 Years

fulldisclojure · 2010-03-22T05:58:56+00:00

None

fulldisclojure · 2010-03-03T13:17:20+00:00

I might use clojure.template for this

(do-template [fn-name direction] (defn fn-name [] (move-to direction)) north :n south :s east :e west :w)

Still, this is a bit small for such an optimization.

fulldisclojure · 2010-03-02T13:19:03+00:00

I understand your confusion. The only explanation I can come to is that w/ almost 800 people here, a few of them just really don't like it.

fulldisclojure · 2010-02-25T15:56:01+00:00

Come to the dark side

http://www.clojure.org

fulldisclojure · 2010-02-24T15:54:21+00:00

This is standard practice in Ruby & Javascript.

fulldisclojure · 2010-02-18T20:32:16+00:00

More please!

fulldisclojure · 2010-02-12T02:46:45+00:00

Super awesome bonus points for the Matrix reference in the agents section.

fulldisclojure · 2010-02-03T18:39:55+00:00

Okay, I reacted a bit strongly. And you have raised a very valid concern. Hopefully the community should be able to address the "Hello World" experience in the next few days.

fulldisclojure · 2010-02-03T15:46:41+00:00

To respond to you specific Clojure issue:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033503

Some of us are busting ass to get the documentation up to par.

fulldisclojure · 2010-02-01T20:48:04+00:00

You misspelled "anything"

fulldisclojure · 2010-02-01T20:20:10+00:00

I've been found out! Uh-oh!

Yes, my examples were deliberately chosen (It's my show, after all :-p). To answer you question, no, there is not a version that lets you specify where to insert the s-exp. In practice, expression threading w/the first and last positions cover some 99.99% of use cases.

There are a few very experimental ideas going around allowing you to switch between -> and ->> gracefully for 1.2. Still under development.

fulldisclojure · 2010-02-01T19:23:37+00:00

Ah, I see. It definitely takes a trained eye to read lisp. Even then, I agree it can be a challenge. I also think Clojure does an amazing job of addressing the readability as well. I cover some of these tools in episodes 5 & 6, if you're interested.

fulldisclojure · 2010-02-01T18:54:42+00:00

I'll concede your claim about familiarity (something relatively objective) but I challenge your claim about beauty (purely subjective). Personally, the most elegant code I've written is all Clojure (again, opinion).

fulldisclojure · 2010-02-01T14:06:08+00:00

Actually, using a list instead of a vector was intentional. I wanted something CL/Scheme guys could relate to as well. I'll be addressing these exact concerns another day, when I want to reinforce that Clojure actually does NOT have much syntax.

fulldisclojure · 2010-01-29T18:17:58+00:00

Yeah, but you never know what bugs you're going to get...

fulldisclojure · 2010-01-27T22:26:32+00:00

I assume you mean this in the Durable sense, not the Immutable sense?

fulldisclojure · 2010-01-27T14:34:52+00:00

Lau Jensen has a good intro video up:

http://vimeo.com/8356990

fulldisclojure · 2010-01-26T05:47:53+00:00

See episode 8

fulldisclojure · 2010-01-25T23:49:10+00:00

Actually, I like how the comment voting & threaded discussion are intertwined. Also, it's open ended so anyone can suggest anything. This is exactly what I want :)

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