Java 7 development branch?

2011-08-16 Thread André Thieme
Are there plans to have a branch for Clojure in which Java 7 specific functions will be developed and included and updated? For example spit taking a java.nio.file.Path [1] as first arg. Or putting pvec using the Fork/Join lib into core, on that specific feature branch. [1]

Re: Stanford AI Class

2011-08-16 Thread André Thieme
On Aug 12, 6:41 pm, daly d...@axiom-developer.org wrote: In AI this is often modeled as a self-modifying program. The easiest way to see this would be a program that handles a rubics cube problem. Initially it only knows some general rules for manipulation, some measure of progress, and a

Re: Stanford AI Class

2011-08-16 Thread André Thieme
On Aug 12, 10:25 pm, daly d...@axiom-developer.org wrote: Consing up a new function and using eval is certainly possible but then you are essentially just working with an interpreter on the data. This is the same in CL. When you have a GP system that constructs new program trees then inside

Re: Stanford AI Class

2011-08-16 Thread André Thieme
On Aug 13, 12:16 am, Sergey Didenko sergey.dide...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, Is there a case when AI self-modifying program is much more elegant than AI just-data-modifying program? I just can't figure out any example when there is a lot of sense to go the self-modifying route. They are all

Re: Stanford AI Class

2011-08-16 Thread André Thieme
On Aug 13, 11:14 pm, Ken Wesson kwess...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Lee Spector lspec...@hampshire.edu wrote: On the one hand most people who work in genetic programming these days write in non-Lisp languages but evolve Lisp-like programs that are interpreted via

Re: Closures in macros

2011-05-08 Thread André Thieme
Hello Ken, thanks for your explanations. It seems that you basically outlined a strategy that can be used to implement that feature. Very good! :-) Am 05.05.2011 02:21, schrieb Ken Wesson: As for concerns that this kind of extension might mask common macro errors, adding some *warn-on-foo*

Re: Closures in macros

2011-05-08 Thread André Thieme
Am 05.05.2011 02:01, schrieb Ken Wesson: (There's an ugly workaround involving explicitly calling intern; you create a dummy namespace with a var holding the object, and then eval code that refers to that var by fully-qualified name in order to retrieve the object.) Yes, this is what I

Re: Closures in macros

2011-05-03 Thread André Thieme
Am 02.05.2011 23:14, schrieb David Nolen: The relevant clojure-dev thread. http://groups.google.com/group/clojure-dev/browse_thread/thread/f4907ebca8ef6e11 It's not clear whether the core team and the various contributors are interested in supporting the behavior you want. It's also not clear

Re: Closures in macros

2011-05-02 Thread André Thieme
Am 02.05.2011 02:26, schrieb Alan: You can't embed a function in code as a raw function object Can anyone give explanations why this is so? I understand that it may sound provocative, but this sounds to me like a major bug. - you need to return code that will result in that function. That

Closures in macros

2011-05-01 Thread André Thieme
I am currently writing a neat logging lib and want it to support dynamic and static logging. When I activate (static-logging!) then the log macro (log :warn message) will check during macro expansion time which log level is currently set and decides based on that if code will be generated that

Re: Has Clojure Fixed the Social Problem that LISP is Too Powerful?

2011-01-04 Thread André Thieme
Am 03.01.2011 21:45, schrieb pavelludiq: On Jan 3, 11:24 am, Jozef Wagnerjozef.wag...@gmail.com wrote: Some of my arguments are: - Clojure has no custom reader macros, makes it easier to read others code - Protocols and the way clojure handles data helps to explicitly formulate specifications

Re: an object of class created using defrecord does not implement IFn .. while it behaves very similar to map otherwise ..

2010-12-30 Thread André Thieme
Am 31.12.2010 03:29, schrieb Alex Baranosky: I've been playing with making a macro to encapsulate Stuart's post, like this: (defmacro defrecord-ifn [name args] `(defrecord ~name ~...@args clojure.lang.IFn (invoke [this key] (get this key (defrecord-ifn Foo [a b c]) (def foo

Re: shorter alternatives for `comp' and `partial'

2010-11-14 Thread André Thieme
Am 14.11.2010 07:33, schrieb Eric Schulte: Hi, I find myself frequently using the `comp' and `partial' functions and while I really enjoy being able to program in a point free style, the length (in characters) of these command names often has the effect of causing what should be a brief

Re: map versus pmap

2010-11-06 Thread André Thieme
Am 06.11.2010 12:57, schrieb philip schwarz: Hi all, be gentle please: I have only just started using clojure. I run the following on an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (starting clojure with java -Xms1000m -Xmx1000m -jar clojure.jar): user= (time (nth (doall (map inc (range 1000))) 999))

Re: map versus pmap

2010-11-06 Thread André Thieme
Am 07.11.2010 04:29, schrieb Ken Wesson: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:25 PM, André Thieme Try (time (count (map (fn [_] (Thread/sleep 1)) (range 1000 vs. (time (count (pmap (fn [_] (Thread/sleep 1)) (range 1000 On my system this is 1002 msecs vs. 39 msecs. Your system has TWENTY-FIVE

Re: Cross-referencing objects?

2010-10-03 Thread André Thieme
Am 03.10.2010 09:32, schrieb Alan: I've got a collection of unique objects, and I need to partition them into sets. That part's easy enough, but I need to have both of the following be efficient, and preferably easy: - Given an object, determine what set it's in - List all the objects in a given

Re: anonymous fn or partial?

2010-10-01 Thread André Thieme
Am 30.09.2010 13:46, schrieb Nicolas Oury: Note that you can't make readermacros yet. It's a supported in CL not in Clojure but maybe in future versions how knows. I meant, if you want to modify Clojure to allow a shorter notation for partial application, it is better to add a reader macro

Re: clojure-contrib 1.3.0-alpha1

2010-09-26 Thread André Thieme
Am 24.09.2010 17:09, schrieb Stuart Sierra: I have deployed release 1.3.0-alpha1 of clojure-contrib. This is the first public release of the modularized clojure-contrib. If you just want one big JAR file, download it from http://github.com/clojure/clojure-contrib/downloads If you want JARs

Re: Reflection warnings in defrecord (missing hint in core_deftype.clj?)

2010-07-11 Thread André Thieme
On Jun 23, 5:17 pm, Michał Marczyk michal.marc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, just noticed that (defprotocol Foo (foo [self])) (defrecord Bar [x] Foo (foo [self] x)) gives areflectionwarning-- call to contains can't be resolved. My initial guess is that this is due to a missing hint on line 215

Re: Atomic reloads and snapshots of namespaces

2009-11-27 Thread André Thieme
On 27 Nov., 04:33, pmf phil.fr...@gmx.de wrote: On Nov 26, 7:39 pm, Richard Newman holyg...@gmail.com wrote: Re consistency: I seem to recall Pascal Costanza working on   activation of layers, so you can swap a whole set of stuff across your   program. He spoke about it at ILC2009, but I'm

Atomic reloads and snapshots of namespaces

2009-11-26 Thread André Thieme
My web application needs updates from time to time. When this happens I often have to stop the server and shut down the JVM. Then the old (current) directories can be replaced by the new ones, and I restart the server. It's okay when there are several copies of the server running behind a load

Deep deref

2009-11-14 Thread André Thieme
I watched http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey and it is a very nice video. Rich mentioned around minute 9 to 10:05 a big problem: when some code gets handed data, can it be sure this thing is immutable? Clojure wants to help, because it encapsulates state in refs,

Re: Deep deref

2009-11-14 Thread André Thieme
On 14 Nov., 20:22, John Harrop jharrop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM, John Harrop jharrop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:42 AM, André Thieme splendidl...@googlemail.com wrote: Dereferencing *persons* will result in: {Tina #r...@7ae6d: {:name Tina

Re: Deep deref

2009-11-14 Thread André Thieme
On 14 Nov., 20:32, Danny Woods dannywo...@gmail.com wrote: André Thieme wrote: How can we handle this situation? Is it possible to implement a function “deep-deref” which works as blindingly fast as deref does? I find this very important, and this is of great practical relevance

Re: Clojure performance tests and clojure a little slower than Java

2009-08-06 Thread André Thieme
On 27 Jul., 23:26, AndyF andy_finger...@alum.wustl.edu wrote: Hello Andy, could you please update the following table?         |  sbcl  |  perl  |   ghc  |  java |   clj - mand-   | wrong  | out of |  32.7  |  28.6  | 340.4 elbrot  |

Re: Using Map

2009-05-08 Thread André Thieme
On 4 Mai, 17:01, Emeka emekami...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I want to arrange objects in rows and also being able to manipulate them. By manipulation I meant, I could move one object from one row and use it to replace another object in another. Should I use Map or something else? I need

Re: Launching apps

2009-05-08 Thread André Thieme
On 9 Mai, 00:30, Chris Dean ctd...@sokitomi.com wrote: How do folks launch their apps? For building (and maybe deploying) it seems that most people use the Java tools (ant, maven, ivy) or have a 10 line shell script.  For pure Clojure code you don't even necessarily have to have a build

Re: CL libraries - Newbie question

2009-05-08 Thread André Thieme
On 8 Mai, 20:00, melipone labwor...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya, I understand that you can use Java libraries with Clojure but can you use Common Lisp libraries for example CXML? In principle you could run Clojure and ABCL inside the same VM. http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/ That should

Re: HTTP clients in clojure

2009-05-08 Thread André Thieme
On 7 Mai, 02:34, Eric Tschetter eched...@gmail.com wrote: Last I checked the various clojure libraries, it seemed like noone has publicized a set of wrappers/clojure-native implementation of an http client.  I'm wonder if such a thing exists, or has everyone basically just rolled their own

Heise wrote its first news article about Clojure today

2009-05-04 Thread André Thieme
German readers might be interested to see that Heise published its first news article about Clojure today: http://www.heise.de/developer/Clojure-1-0-funktionale-Programmiersprache-fuer-die-Java-Virtual-Machine--/news/meldung/137231 So, I guess they will keep it on their radar. Let's work

Re: name of current function

2009-05-03 Thread André Thieme
On 3 Mai, 15:58, Mark Volkmann r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a special variable that holds the name of the currently running function so it can be output in a logging message? I'm thinking of something like this: (defn my-function []   (println entered *current-function*)  

Re: Selenium and Clojure

2009-04-24 Thread André Thieme
On 24 Apr., 15:27, al3xandr3 al3xan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, sharing here a little Clojure script i made that uses Selenium. In case someone finds it useful:http://alexandrenotebook.blogspot.com/2009/04/clojure-and-selenium.html Thanks for your article. I find it interesting, however, I

Re: Recursively delete files

2009-04-22 Thread André Thieme
On 22 Apr., 21:12, Phil Hagelberg p...@hagelb.org wrote: I couldn't find an equivalent to rm -rf in the JDK, so I wrote these functions: (defn delete-file   Delete file f. Raise an exception if it fails.   [f]   (or (.delete (file f))       (throw (java.io.IOException. (str Couldn't

Re: Is Clojure production ready?

2009-04-16 Thread André Thieme
I suggest you to use Clojure. There is no more risk involved than with anything else. Clojure supports in its current version all of Java. It has very nice libs, macros, cuncurrency engine, etc. Those are fully production ready features. My company uses Clojure for production, and it meets our

Re: Request for improved error reporting

2009-03-29 Thread André Thieme
On 29 Mrz., 01:55, Glen Stampoultzis gst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been really enjoying getting to know clojure.  It's an awesome language that has got me very interested in learning more. One thing that hasn't left me impressed is the error reporting. [...] There are a few things wrong

Re: Symbols evaluated at compile time?

2009-03-16 Thread André Thieme
On 16 Mrz., 20:45, David Nolen dnolen.li...@gmail.com wrote: Should the REPL have an interactive mode where it won't fire an exception on undefined symbols and instead issue compiler warnings? If compiler warnings were issued this would be a nice hook for Emacs and other IDEs. Yes, I was

Re: Promise for absense of side effects

2009-03-16 Thread André Thieme
On 16 Mrz., 19:43, Meikel Brandmeyer m...@kotka.de wrote: Am 16.03.2009 um 12:26 schrieb Robert Pfeiffer: Did you mean this: http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/pdf/28_Siek_gradual.pdf It was presented at the JVM Summit, so Rich may already have given a thought to this. Argh.. Gradual

Re: Promise for absense of side effects

2009-03-16 Thread André Thieme
On 16 Mrz., 23:36, Raoul Duke rao...@gmail.com wrote: please, for those who aren't Erlang nerds, also see Dialyzer. http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/dialyzer Funny, I just wanted to post exactly that link. It is very impressive what that tool did: Dialyzer has been applied to large

Re: Symbols evaluated at compile time?

2009-03-16 Thread André Thieme
On 16 Mrz., 22:41, Phil Hagelberg p...@hagelb.org wrote: André Thieme splendidl...@googlemail.com writes: But it also protects you from typos. And this can be even more important. Imagine you have a complex program and accidently made a typo, and this will go unnoticed for days and days

Re: filter1 interesting?

2009-03-15 Thread André Thieme
On 14 Mrz., 16:26, Stuart Sierra the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com wrote: I've added a seek function to clojure.contrib.seq-utils: (defn seek   Returns the first item of coll for which (pred item) returns logical true.   Consumes sequences up to the first match, will consume the entire sequence

Re: 08 and 09 are invalid numbers, but 01 through 07 are fine?

2009-03-15 Thread André Thieme
On 13 Mrz., 14:19, David Sletten da...@bosatsu.net wrote: Common Lisp uses a separate syntax for binary/octal/hex literals. Legal: #b1011, #o377, #xDEADBEEF, #36rZZZ (Base 36 anyone?) Illegal: #b2, #o8, #xQUICKSAND (Of course, #36rCLOJURE = 27432414842 :-) ) This is also available in

Re: What is Clojure NOT good for?

2009-03-14 Thread André Thieme
On 6 Mrz., 17:07, lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca wrote: I know some business where HR and IT managers come back with this mantra that they can find Java and .Net coders, anything else is too risky or too scarce on the market. Right. I am sure a lot of those managers really think that way. If

Re: What is Clojure NOT good for?

2009-03-14 Thread André Thieme
On 6 Mrz., 19:21, Phil Hagelberg p...@hagelb.org wrote: The only other thing I can think of is short-lived command-line tools that need subsecond launch times. The Lisp repl is the command-line. There is no starting time of the JVM involved.

Re: filter1 interesting?

2009-03-14 Thread André Thieme
On 9 Mrz., 16:34, Stuart Sierra the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 8, 3:20 pm, André Thieme splendidl...@googlemail.com wrote: I regularily stumble upon the (first (filter predicate coll)) pattern. Maybe we can add a filter1 for that? In the Clojure project itself I found this two

Re: Promise for absense of side effects

2009-03-14 Thread André Thieme
On 9 Mrz., 20:42, Raoul Duke rao...@gmail.com wrote: ok oops that didn't work, sorry -- i mean to send this link: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/samth/typed-scheme/manual/ That is not too far away of what I had in mind. What I would like is if it were even a bit more optional. Typed Scheme

Re: Speed issues vs. Python

2009-03-13 Thread André Thieme
On 12 Mrz., 07:48, tristan tristan.k...@gmail.com wrote: my clojure version http://github.com/tristan/project-euler-code/blob/4a17bc271b4b2743ee1... Not about speed, but about readability: (loop [c primes n #{}] (let [r (loop [b primes n n] (let [r (loop [a primes n n] ...))) You

Re: transactions and deadlock

2009-03-08 Thread André Thieme
On 8 Mrz., 13:40, Mark Volkmann r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a webpage or video that describes what Clojure transactions do to avoid deadlocks? I'm not having a particular issue. I just want to understand what is provided. Perhaps I just need to look at the source starting from

Re: LazyMap v2.2 released

2009-03-08 Thread André Thieme
On 7 Mrz., 18:38, Meikel Brandmeyer m...@kotka.de wrote: Dear Clojurians, I'd like to announce release of LazyMap v2.2. New in this release are:   * compatibility with lazy-seq changes   * LazyMapSeq now inherits from ASeq   * 100% reflection free The release maybe found at the usual

filter1 interesting?

2009-03-08 Thread André Thieme
I regularily stumble upon the (first (filter predicate coll)) pattern. Maybe we can add a filter1 for that? In the Clojure project itself I found this two times, in core.clj for the ns macro, and in genclass.clj in find-field. Also in the clojure-contrib project it shows up two times (again in

Promise for absense of side effects

2009-03-08 Thread André Thieme
I like that Clojure is a dynamically typed language. Even in dynamic languages it is possible to find out a lot more about the code itself than one may think on a first glance. Clojure already supports type hints that can make code run faster. But what if we could add a soft layer of static

Re: dotimes suggestion

2009-02-21 Thread André Thieme
On 21 Feb., 18:24, Mark Volkmann r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com wrote: Currently the dotimes macro requires its first argument to be a vector for binding a variable to the number of times the body should be executed. Inside the body, that variable is bound to the values from 0 to that number minus

Re: Clojure speed

2009-02-03 Thread André Thieme
On 2 Feb., 16:35, Gregory Petrosyan gregory.petros...@gmail.com wrote: Clojure rev. 1173: user= (defn fac [#^Integer n] (reduce * (range 1 (+ 1 n #'user/fac user= (time (reduce + (map fac (range 1000 Elapsed time: 944.798019 msecs Python 3.0: import timeit

Re: Documentation of lazy-cat should contain a warning

2009-01-31 Thread André Thieme
On 31 Jan., 02:44, Daniel Renfer d...@kronkltd.net wrote: user= (take 0 (lazy-cat [(println 10)] [(println 20)])) 10 nil What you see here is not an issue with lazy-cat, but rather an issue with take. The current implementation of take evaluates one more than the n passed to it. I don’t

Re: Documentation of lazy-cat should contain a warning

2009-01-31 Thread André Thieme
On 31 Jan., 02:47, Jason Wolfe jawo...@berkeley.edu wrote: I think this behavior is as-intended, although I agree that it is confusing. I am worried that you could be right. That’s why I suggested to modify the doc string of lazy-cat. In my opinion the real step that needs to be done is to go

Documentation of lazy-cat should contain a warning

2009-01-30 Thread André Thieme
Some minutes ago I found out that there is a mismatch between my interpretation of lazy-cats docstring and the actual behaviour of that macro. Its docstring says: Expands to code which yields a lazy sequence of the concatenation of the supplied colls. Each coll expr is not evaluated until it

Re: newbie Q: recur vs self call

2009-01-24 Thread André Thieme
On 24 Jan., 16:50, wubbie sunj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I wonder why self-call(filter) is used in one place and recur is used in the other. (defn filter   Returns a lazy seq of the items in coll for which   (pred item) returns true. pred must be free of side-effects.   [pred coll]    

List comprehension: :when AND :while for the same binding?

2008-12-06 Thread André Thieme
(for [x (range 1 20) :when ( x 8) :while ( 0 (rem x 13))] x) == java.lang.Exception: Unsupported binding form: :while But: (for [x (range 1 20) :when ( x 8)] x) == (9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19) And: (for [x (range 1 20) :while ( 0 (rem x 13))] x) == (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12) Is it

Re: quit

2008-12-01 Thread André Thieme
On 30 Nov., 23:58, Mark Volkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you misunderstood what I was suggesting. I was only referring to expressions entered in a REPL, not expressions in a file of Clojure code. I understood that part and explained why this wouldn’t work. Not in the REPL, not in a

Re: infix operators

2008-11-30 Thread André Thieme
On 30 Nov., 20:09, Stuart Sierra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 28, 6:54 pm, Dmitri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of I'd like to say that I find Clojure to be an excellent language, however I find the lack of infix operators makes reading equations somewhat unnatural, eg: Hi, Dmitri,

Re: trampoline for mutual recursion

2008-11-28 Thread André Thieme
On 27 Nov., 13:06, Meikel Brandmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Maybe I have a wrong understanding of closure, but as far as I understand, every function definition in Clojure - be it defn or #() - finally translates to (fn ...). And fn creates a closure. Well, from my experience I

Re: trampoline for mutual recursion

2008-11-28 Thread André Thieme
On 28 Nov., 23:29, Meikel Brandmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi André, Am 28.11.2008 um 22:56 schrieb André Thieme: Maybe I have a wrong understanding of closure, but as far as I understand, every function definition in Clojure - be it defn or #() - finally translates to (fn

Re: trampoline for mutual recursion

2008-11-26 Thread André Thieme
On 26 Nov., 21:26, Chouser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Mark Volkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious about this syntax. I thought if #(function-name args) creates a closure then I can put one in a variable and execute it laterI entered this in a

Re: multi-method dispatch for structs

2008-11-22 Thread André Thieme
On 14 Nov., 20:11, Jeff Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,    I'm working on a library where I'd like to be able to dispatch off of whether the arguments are one of a number of different possible structs.   I've created a custom hierarchy and everything makes sense with derive etc., but I

Re: pattern matching in function parameters

2008-11-22 Thread André Thieme
On 19 Nov., 22:16, Mark Volkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reading an excellent article on functional programming athttp://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html. Toward the end there is a section on pattern matching. They give the following example which uses a fictional, Java-like syntax.

Re: seq and vector

2008-11-22 Thread André Thieme
On 23 Nov., 01:23, Rich Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 22, 4:59 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still don't understand your expectation here. If the filter does any filtering, it won't return everything in the vector, so the new result will have fewer items. Do you

Re: prog1

2008-11-08 Thread André Thieme
On 8 Nov., 17:47, Phlex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Pfeiffer wrote: Hello, Is there a benefit in implementing this as a macro instead of a function? The function version would be very simple: (defn returning [returnval body]    returnval) Well no, the forms are evaluated. It's

Re: prog1

2008-11-08 Thread André Thieme
On 8 Nov., 18:32, Meikel Brandmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Am 08.11.2008 um 17:58 schrieb Randall R Schulz: Peasant? Or did you mean pedant? In german there is the word Banause which translates according the dictionary to peasant. It means something like the following: The german

Re: prog1

2008-11-08 Thread André Thieme
On 8 Nov., 18:00, Meikel Brandmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Am 08.11.2008 um 17:39 schrieb Meikel Brandmeyer: (defn returning [returnval body]  returnval) And another question, which a I got when I read the mail of Phlex: Is the order of evaluation of function arguments

Re: Defining own data types on top of Persistent ones

2008-11-02 Thread André Thieme
On 1 Nov., 14:12, Rich Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 31, 1:20 pm, André Thieme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is what I tried: user (defn make-lyst [ items]         (proxy [clojure.lang.IPersistentList] []                (cons [obj] (cons obj this))                (count

Defining own data types on top of Persistent ones

2008-10-31 Thread André Thieme
In #Clojure Rich mentioned today that we can define our own data structures on top of the existing ones. Maybe someone wants/needs his own version of vectors that rearrange automatically in some specific order or whatever. If I now want to add something that works nearly like lists, but a little

(in-ns 'java)

2008-10-31 Thread André Thieme
I get a funny result when I say (in-ns 'java), on the repl. I can’t switch back, as in (in-ns 'user). --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Defining own data types on top of Persistent ones

2008-10-31 Thread André Thieme
Stuart Sierra schrieb: On Oct 31, 1:20pm, André Thieme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But unfortunately (make-lyst 1 2 3) == java.lang.ClassCastException: clojure.lang.Proxy__5307 cannot be cast to clojure.lang.ISeq Any ideas how this should be done so that it will work? I think

Re: Currying for Clojure

2008-10-29 Thread André Thieme
On 26 Okt., 06:23, Matthew D. Swank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am dubious of the curry proposal, Hi Matt! Could you please be more specific about what makes you dubious? I understand that the #(..) reader macro can’t be used, but this won’t keep us from having some other instead. It could be

Re: Currying for Clojure

2008-10-23 Thread André Thieme
On 23 Okt., 15:12, Rich Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 22, 6:45 pm, André Thieme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think, in general, this proposal, while interesting, has the difficulty that it reduces the power of #() to not much more than currying, and has some presumptions that need

Currying for Clojure

2008-10-22 Thread André Thieme
I would like to suggest to improve currying. Right now Clojure already comes with a nice way to do something that is nearly as good as currying, but still not fully. In a very functional programming style this makes sense to have good currying support. Here is my proposal for extending the #(...)

Re: Currying for Clojure

2008-10-22 Thread André Thieme
On 22 Okt., 23:24, André Thieme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This version of replace-placeholders still misses the numbered args %1, %2, .. as the reader would also steal those from me. In the end the #(..) macro would do it, instead of §. So what I just did was extending

Re: max

2008-10-20 Thread André Thieme
On 16 Okt., 22:01, Stephen C. Gilardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #(identity %) is more compactly written as: identity. This works:         user= (apply max (filter identity '(1 2 nil 4)))         4 In this case, number? is also a good predicate to use:         user= (apply max (filter

Re: offtopic - where are you come from? (poll)

2008-10-20 Thread André Thieme
Germany here. I found Clojure just a few days ago and was quite happy about that. In fact, I felt euphoric from the beginning and still feel this way. A cleaned up Lisp with a nice and talented dictator :-) I like that it strongly asks for a functional programming style. I am thinking about