- doc strings with examples could be more human readable
(defn ^{:examples '[(with-out-str (clipboard (doc distinct)))]
clipboard [x] ...)
Just if a mechanism like this were used more widely... we'd get syntax
coloring for free, and a facility for programatically querying examples.
-
XML, JSON or SQL generation tests become filled with escaped quotes
Again, one can either keep reference to files in the tests, or develop e.g.
a XML-testing DSL.
Even if they were cases were there wasn't a clear alternative to the idea
of raw strings, if such a feature were added, it could be used gratuitously.
For the same reason Clojure offers e.g. limited inheritance possibilities.
I prefer having to eventually resort to Java to write "advanced" classes,
than to use a language which users have it easy to build implementation
hierarchies.
On Monday, March 18, 2013 12:25:07 PM UTC+1, Maik Schünemann wrote:
>
> http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Alternate+string+quote+syntaxes
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Dave Sann <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> I'd welcome the ability to change delimiter. I've found it very useful in
>> the past to avoid illegible or hard to read strings.
>>
>>
>> On Monday, 18 March 2013 19:57:06 UTC+11, Luc wrote:
>>
>>> Looks fine to me. If it's an extension to the literal syntax it's also a
>>> narrow scope change.
>>>
>>> The standard escape sequences make things harder even for display
>>> purposes.
>>> We would also benefit from this, we are handling huge amounts of raw
>>> text
>>> and just for debugging purposes we have to mentally handle the \ escape
>>> character... berk.
>>>
>>> Our unit tests also suffer from this escaping mode.
>>>
>>> Using a literal syntax like this one would make life easier.
>>>
>>> Luc P.
>>>
>>> > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Softaddicts
>>> > <[email protected]>**wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > > I find raw string handling in XML simply ugly :)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Agreed.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > > Do you have a suggestion on how to represent raw strings ? Something
>>> > > concrete
>>> > > we could discuss about ?
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > In several languages, they use a sequence of three double-quotes to
>>> mark
>>> > the beginning and the end of the raw string.
>>> >
>>> > In Clojure, I think raw strings would actually enhance the power of
>>> the edn
>>> > format rather than detract, specifically the tagged elements.
>>> >
>>> > Right now, edn supports things like:
>>> > #uuid "f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-**00a0c91e6bf6"and
>>> > #inst "1985-04-12T23:20:50.52Z"and you can create your own. The
>>> built-ins
>>> > happen to not utilize double-quotes or backslashes, so escaping is not
>>> a
>>> > big deal, but if you want your tagged element to use a syntax where
>>> quotes
>>> > and backslashes are natural, you're out of luck and you get a big ugly
>>> > mess. Think how much uglier the above inst element would look if -
>>> and :
>>> > happened to be characters that required escaping. All I want is the
>>> > ability to do something like
>>> >
>>> > *#my/tag """45 \ "a" \ 50"""*
>>> >
>>> > if that's the most natural way to express the element rather than
>>> having to
>>> > type
>>> >
>>> > *#my/tag "45 \\ \"a\" \\ 50"*
>>> >
>>> > which is already starting to look ugly, and looks far uglier the more
>>> > characters are in there that require escaping.
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