Hi Folks, I wanted to comment on "Feature Expressions" feature page, but it looks like special privileges are required, so I thought I'd post my questions / feedback here.
I've being working on client side JS for a while and I'm well aware of hazards associated with platform specific code branching. Although solution that in my experience worked best, was move to more granular a codebase, isolating platform specific code from a common one. I think this would be a great direction for clojure / clojurescript ? As a matter of fact it would be tremendous help for newcomers like myself to have a baseline libraries abstracting platform differences that would not assume specific backgrounds in Java or JS. Please don't take this a wrong way, but I do believe most problems are not caused by inability to switch between platform specific code, but rather by a lack of baseline that would allow writing a common code. Here are few examples: Otherwise perfectly portable clojure compatible clojurescript code won't work because in clojurescript one needs to extend default type while in clojure it's Object instead. I don't know actual reason here but have a feeling that common thing could be created that would work for both. https://github.com/Gozala/eventual-cljs/blob/master/src/core.cljs#L26 Another interesting case is try special form which clearly does not fits JS since catching exceptions by a classname does not really make much sense there. http://clojure.org/special_forms#try Also as far as I can tell in order to throw an exception one need to either access js/Error or one of Exception classes on Java. I do believe identifying & fixing such cases, so that non platform specific code could be written without accessing platform specific constructs would solve most of the issues without introducing further complexity. In fact it would make platform more accessible for others. Another thing I wanted to point out was racket's submodules which may be another interesting option to consider: http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/06/submodules.html P.S: My apologies, if some of my comments are incorrect it could be that I'm still missing important parts of the puzzle. Regards -- Irakli Gozalishvili Web: http://www.jeditoolkit.com/ -- 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
