Every now and again I try to get serious about learning Clojure and every time I quit due to its documentation. I find it confusing. Nothing seems to be where it should be, there are almost no examples etc. So, every time I end up writing (in Java, I might add) a documentation browser with index, full-text search support, bookmarks (something similar to Eclipses help system or kchmviewer) and maybe a possibility of adding custom examples to meta :doc with aspiration of building a personal tutorial as I go along.
I can't seem to find a way of obtaining that information from Clojures runtime in a "standard" manner, however. I tried tackling the 'problem' with evaluating a (map meta (reduce concat (map vals (map ns- publics (all-ns))))) and then parsing the result using Clojures java classes. I can do that without major problems. But I'm tired of doing it every time when some (sub)results type gets changed (the last one was from LazyCons to LazySeq) and I naively update everything from the SVN. Is there any guarantee with regard to the internal structure of evaluation results (speaking in Java terms)? If not, is there something planed to that effect for official release(s)? Alternatively, what's the best (quickest, most robust, ...) way of obtaining Clojures runtime info in a manner similar to this: Map<String, interns> // keys == distinct namespace names interns: Map<String, meta> // keys == distinct intern or public names meta: Map<String, String> (or Map<String, List<String>> for the sake of arguments ;-) ) // keys == meta names in a sentence: something that could be parsed from within Java using java.lang.String and Java collection classes? Regards, David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
