I think I have a good topic. How about the intricacies of syntax-quotes and in particular, nested syntax-quotes?
When I was first learning Lisp (Common Lisp), I had to struggle with nested syntax-quotes (backquotes) very much. That was until I read Alan Bawden's superb paper on the subject, and Paul Graham's tips in ANSI COMMON LISP. It suddenly all made sense. It was really easy once you stopped "translating" the syntax-quote syntax as the reader was doing, and followed the simple rules underlying the whole mechanism: outer quotes first, correspondence between syntax-quotes and unquotes (easy too), and so on. It became a breeze, and now I can basically follow even the toughest expressions without struggling at all. That would be a good one for many clojurians I believe. After all, syntax- quotes and macros are what make Lisp so powerful with respect to all the other languages ;) Rock On Jan 25, 12:30 pm, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On Jan 25, 8:58 am, rb <raphi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > * interacting with a database in general, and covering clojureql in > > particular > > Beware the redesign: the ClojureQL DSL is currently revised. The end > result is not clear, yet. However it will change. > > Sincerely > Meikel -- 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
