On 24/05/2010, at 1:11 PM, Drew Colthorp wrote: > A few weeks ago I announced a pattern matching library called > matchure. I'm excited to say it's being merged into clojure.contrib as > clojure.contrib.match. I'd like some feedback on ideas for some > backward-incompatible changes I'm planning to make before it's > actually pushed to clojure.contrib.
... > Anyone have an opinion? Yes - please don't put this in clojure.contrib, for two reasons: 1. The stated instruction is to not depend on clojure.contrib, and the feedback I've received when I stated that I did in fact depend on it was that I was a fool for not following the instructions i.e. RTFI. 2. clojure.contrib is a large, monolithic bag of stuff, with a single version number. So to track changes to matchure I will be forced to track all of the changes to clojure.contrib. This is made even more difficult because clojure.contrib has no backwards compatibility intention. I know you don't either, but given the large number of different components in clojure.contrib, the likelihood of breaking changes for each commit is greatly increased. It's been breaking a lot recently, and given the number of third party components that depend on it (in spite of the warning), the knock-on effect is playing havoc with configuration management. Why don't you just keep developing as matchure - there's no reason that everything destined for core needs to first pass into the quarantine zone that is clojure.contrib. Antony Blakey -------------------------- CTO, Linkuistics Pty Ltd Ph: 0438 840 787 I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. --Stephen F Roberts -- 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
