You may find http://blog.higher-order.net/2009/02/01/understanding-clojures-persistentvector-implementation/ useful for a clear explanation of PersistentVectors. Maybe even get in touch with the guy for an addition to the book? Thanks for your work on a literate clojure.
sincerely, --Robert McIntyre On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Tim Daly <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote: >> Hmmm. I may have misunderstood your point. I thought you were suggesting >> writing code that is not part of the distribution in order to get a >> minimal running system and then working from that. If that is not what >> you're suggesting then I'm confused. > > No, I was just suggesting that the order of the material put the stuff > in the distribution that's necessary to bootstrap a minimally > functional repl first, culminating in the eval function and the > command-line repl class, then flesh out the rest of Clojure's > feature-set with the rest of the stuff in the distribution. No new > code. > >> The pamphlet sources are in a git repository so they are immutable. >> >> Wikis are fine for a lot of things but not for linearizing the >> ideas into a readable literate form. Books fulfill that role. > > I suggested *maybe* letting the wiki users try to decide, > collectively, on a linearization; maybe that would prove workable and > maybe not. If not, you'd have to linearize it yourself to make the > book version. But if you're looking for section submissons and user > proof-reading a wiki can at least organize that activity, and can > provide "seeds" by having unwritten sections in there with just the > source code that is to be explained. And without potential > contributors maybe being put off by having to learn a whole extra set > of tools (namely, github and whatever client software) and get a login > at some site (github). Some might not have used git. A few might not > have used any code repository system. A wiki on the other hand can be > edited by anyone who can type stuff into a web form and can be > configured not to require a login (ala Wikipedia itself). > > -- > 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 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
