A quick shoutout to the Clojure Community - thanks for the way you've all contributed to make my life (mentally) richer.
James Reeves (author of Compojure and many other wonderful libraries) made this interesting comment on Hacker News: > Clojure has libraries that implement monads, but these aren't often used for threading state. I can't quite place my finger on why, but in Clojure I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad, as I would in Haskell. >Clojure tends to view mutability as a concurrency problem, and the tools it provides to deal with mutability, such as atoms, refs, agents, channels and so forth, are not mechanisms to avoid mutation, as to provide various guarantees that restrict it in some fashion. >It might be that in the cases where I'd use a state monad in Haskell, in Clojure I might instead use an atom. They're in no way equivalent, but they have some overlapping use-cases. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7751424 My question is - have other Clojure/Haskell programmers had this experience? (ie "I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad"). I'm interested to hear if so, and why. JG PS If this post is unhelpful, could be worded better - please let me know. I'm asking out of curiosity, not with intent to troll. -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
