Hi Mark, A fuller discussion can be found here: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/a99b420d5ee0aa40/47f8c2ab6845e9ae Which has links to the simple patch I tried, and discusses the more advanced technique Laurent experimented with. Elena subsequently developed an emacs plugin which looks interesting (I'm a VI ninja though so haven't used it) http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/ca7076f4c6591fdd/cda5cf10b89a3679
My own experience FWIW was that it was great for two weeks coding with autodef, then for about a week I became frustrated with my typos and disabled it. More promising solutions might come from an external tool (such as Knuth's literate programming noweb) or IDE support like Elena described. For now my work flow is write the code backwards (ie: manually move the cursor up) and/or chopping and pasting. Then when I'm happy with it, I re-chop it all in my 'preferred' order and put a declare at the top. That sounds quite inefficient, but VI is really great for re- organizing text blocks so it is not too strenuous. That said, I'm really interested in ways that "literate programming" style can be followed with the least external support. Regards, Tim. On Mar 26, 4:15 pm, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Timothy Pratley > > <timothyprat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is also quite trivial to patch the compiler to auto-def symbols as > > it finds them instead of throwing an error. > > I would be interested in knowing how to do such a patch. When I work > on code, I like to organize my functions in a way that makes it easy > to read and understand what is going on. As I work on longer chunks > of Clojure code, I'm finding that shuffling around the functions to > avoid a lot of forward declarations is destroying the readability of > my code. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
