I think part of the issue is that the article dates back to mid-2015 and `clojure.spec` wasn’t a thing back then, was it?
Variants feel like a solution to a problem for which we have a much better solution _today_ than we did two years ago. The article talks about using core.typed and core.match with variants – because that’s what we had then. I’m fairly sure that if Eric (and Jeanine) were writing their material today, we’d see `clojure.spec` front and center and regular hash maps being used. Sean Corfield -- (970) FOR-SEAN -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood From: Timothy Baldridge Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 6:00 PM To: clojure@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Sum types in Clojure? Better to represent as tagged records or asvariant vectors? I think the article is a bit misleading. Variants were never that popular in Clojure. Infact I've never seen them used in production code or the most common Clojure libraries. So I'm a bit perplexed as to why the article recommends them so strongly. So I think the answer is, they are a fun thought experiment in Clojure, but are of limited usefulness due to the tools we have available that make them unneeded. It's a bit like recommending that new users use actors in Clojure. Sure, you can shoehorn them in, but there's a reason why they aren't the default. -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
