doesn't sound like you are misunderstanding. Data is data, first and foremost in that model. you have to work to turn something into a function. other than functions, everything is data. That's the JSON way, for sure. When something is a function, you see things like "eval" and "function" in javascript, at least. But they only have two types, arrays and objects (dictionaries).
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Alex Osborne <a...@meshy.org> wrote: > e <evier...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Can you imagine how disruptive it would be at this point to do it the > > other way around? If you were starting out today without any Lisp > > baggage, it seems TOTALLY obvious to me that lists would have been (1 > > 2 3), and the *calling of a function* would have been the different > > thing ... now that these other data structures represent themselves > > symbolically (vectors, sets, maps). > > Interesting, although in the case of idiomatic Clojure it's actually > very rare to want to use a list literal. Most of the places you'd use a > list literal in other lisps, a vector probably makes more sense in > Clojure. I'm also not sure the code-is-data thing works so well when > you reverse quotation like that as it means you'd have quotes on every > nested level instead of just the outside, which would make macros more > difficult to write (at least without any other changes), but I may be > misunderstanding your idea. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
