I also think it is worth remembering the difficulty people have with getting started with Clojure (wrt to IDEs). There are *so* many third party libraries out there at the moment that a beginner could easily be overwhelmed. The more self contained and feature complete the core is the better.
Fine line though...and one I am glad I am not in charge of. Col On 19 September 2011 13:51, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Luc Prefontaine > <lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> wrote: > > And yes, defn- should be located elsewhere than in core. +1 for moving it > > out of core, at least, defn- should not be make publicly available by > core. > > I'm of more or less the opposite appearance: anything that core itself > uses, and that therefore already exists in core, and that is likely to > be useful to a significant number of users, ought to be public. > Otherwise it will end up wastefully duplicated in core and at least > one third-party library, and there might even be a lot of > wheel-reinvention -- with some of them probably turning out square. > > -- > Protege: What is this seething mass of parentheses?! > Master: Your father's Lisp REPL. This is the language of a true > hacker. Not as clumsy or random as C++; a language for a more > civilized age. > > -- > 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
