Re: Converting Leiningen project.clj to Gradle

2014-09-17 Thread Korny Sietsma
Which ci environment? I'm a little surprised, as those I've used will let you run arbitrary command lines. I've run leiningen from Jenkins, Bamboo, and ThoughtWorks Go, all with no problems... On 17 Sep 2014 21:22, Adam Markham adamjmark...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately using Leiningen in this

Re: map semantics

2014-02-09 Thread Korny Sietsma
Agreed - there are always tradeoffs. Another common example is that pretty well any language that uses IEEE floating point is also breaking referential transparency in the interest of pragmatism: user= (= 0.3 (+ 0.1 0.2)) false user= (= (bigdec 0.3) (+ (bigdec 0.1) (bigdec 0.2))) true -

Re: Alternative - macro for threading sequences?

2014-02-08 Thread Korny Sietsma
or a map in this case, what you initially have is optimal. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com wrote: I tend to agree, I think. I certainly can't think of a syntax that would make me happy. It just feels like a bit of a smell that I keep using

Re: Alternative - macro for threading sequences?

2014-02-07 Thread Korny Sietsma
Wagner jozef.wag...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Colin, the cognitive load is greater than benefits of such approach. BTW you can use comp to chain consecutive map transformation functions. (map (comp pacify wrangle) things) JW On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com

Re: Lessons Learned from Adopting Clojure

2014-02-06 Thread Korny Sietsma
I've been doing something very similar, but using IntelliJ + Cursive Clojure - run Midje autotest inside the IDE for running tests, and also for manually evaluating snippets of code. plug Cursive gives me a lot of what I had from Emacs - paredit editing, tight repl integration (alt-enter mapped

Alternative - macro for threading sequences?

2014-02-06 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi folks, I seem to regularly find myself writing - threaded code that follows similar patterns: (- things (map wrangle) (map pacify) (filter effable) (map #(aggravate % :bees :sharks)) (reduce mapinate {}) i.e. all stages of the code actually operate on a collection rather

Re: Coverage tools in Clojure

2014-02-04 Thread Korny Sietsma
My 2c - on my last project it would have been handy to have some test coverage tools, they can be useful to sanity check your testing. However, it's worth noting that compared to a java project, we had far fewer lines of code, so manually reviewing code for tests was a lot easier. And there were

Re: Recommendations for parsing/validating a JSON structure

2014-01-27 Thread Korny Sietsma
Parsing is easy - use either https://github.com/clojure/data.json or https://github.com/dakrone/cheshire (Cheshire used to have some advantages over data.json but I have the impression data.json has caught up). For validation I've used Prismatic Schema - https://github.com/prismatic/schema - it's

Re: [ANN] Component: dependency injection and state management

2014-01-05 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi - I've been playing with this and I'm a little confused. I can understand how you use the library to pass around stateful components, and to start/stop them and wire them up etc. But I'm not sure I see how it should be used for more general dependency injection. I'll pick a concrete example

Re: [ANN] Component: dependency injection and state management

2014-01-05 Thread Korny Sietsma
with a local in-memory version. -S On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com wrote: Hi - I've been playing with this and I'm a little confused. I can understand how you use the library to pass around stateful components, and to start/stop them and wire them up etc. But I'm

Re: How to go about 'proving' why dynamically typed languages are better.

2013-12-23 Thread Korny Sietsma
This ties in nicely to my summary of how I feel about static typing: Static typing is a premature optimisation. Like most optimisations, it has genuine value, but if you apply it globally and too early, you end up causing more pain than you gain. sometime type discussions lead to lead to early

Re: Am I missing something?

2013-12-04 Thread Korny Sietsma
We had to tell Cheshire to always use bigdecimals - and I think there was something else, can't remember. Not all that advanced, really. On 4 Dec 2013 16:17, Brian Craft craft.br...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 8:48:34 PM UTC-8, Korny wrote: * Compojure for routing, and

Re: Am I missing something?

2013-12-03 Thread Korny Sietsma
My 2c on this : We are doing similar things at my current client - with less pain. I suspect you've been unlucky in your choice of libraries, and maybe expecting more than you get in clojure's ecosystem - ruby, python etc have been around a lot longer, and with a lot more focus on database use.

Re: Is The Joy if Clojure up to date?

2013-12-01 Thread Korny Sietsma
Whereas the Joy of Clojure makes me think of a certain '70s book with interesting illustrations, that I used to stealthily read in the back shelves of the local library as a teen. The Joy of Clojure is an awesome book. Though part of me wishes it had at least one '70s style line drawing of Rich

Re: Regarding Clojure's license

2013-11-13 Thread Korny Sietsma
any sufficiently poorly worded argument is indistinguishable from trolling. Is that original? I want to quote it. A lot. - Korny On 14 Nov 2013 01:42, Paul L. Snyder p...@pataprogramming.com wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Phillip Lord wrote: Paul L. Snyder p...@pataprogramming.com writes:

Re: blog article on RSpec like TDD with a rapid feedback cycle in Clojure

2013-10-20 Thread Korny Sietsma
Note you can do the same thing in midje : https://github.com/marick/Midje/wiki/Auto test - it works quite nicely. On 20 Oct 2013 21:04, Waldemar waldemar.sch...@googlemail.com wrote: I noticed that some struggle finding a good TDD workflow, in Clojurehttps://plus.google.com/s/%23Clojure, with

Re: clj-ldap - Clojure LDAP client

2013-10-06 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi - is anyone maintaining any of these ldap libraries? I ask because: - neither has updates in 2 years - the underlying umboundid library now supplies a bindAndRevertAuthentication function that implements what was discussed previously in this thread - you can bind without mutating the existing

Re: [ANN] cljsfiddle.net

2013-09-28 Thread Korny Sietsma
Nice - this would have been handy this morning for clojure cup hacking! (Though core.async support would have made it even better) - Korny On 28 September 2013 20:24, Jonas jonas.enl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I’m working on a ClojureScript playground application ( http://cljsfiddle.net)

XML namespace parsing - any movement?

2013-09-18 Thread Korny Sietsma
So, the background - there is a page about fuller xml support at http://dev.clojure.org/display/DXML/Fuller+XML+support - Currently none of the xml parsing options support this - the best I've found is https://github.com/grammati/eksemel but it hasn't been touched in 2 years, and the last commit

Re: [ANN] modern-cljs tutorials updated

2013-09-14 Thread Korny Sietsma
You know you're a lisp programmer when you feel conflicted about balancing parentheses around emoticons. (like this :)) (or like this :) - Korny On 13 Sep 2013 12:35, Cedric Greevey cgree...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Mimmo Cosenza mimmo.cose...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All,

Re: BigDecimal and ==, with a proposed fix

2013-09-03 Thread Korny Sietsma
It'd be great if this got fixed - we met an ugly bug yesterday due to this on our project. (Our system validates that the sum of two monetary fields A and B equals the sum of two monetary fields C and D. We parse the fields via Cheshire with conversion to bigdecimal turned on - but any fields

Re: Do you like the Clojure syntax?

2013-08-13 Thread Korny Sietsma
I think it depends on what is important to you. For me, the syntax is core to the language because it encourages a certain mindset. The default for everything is (verb noun noun noun...) - this is the kingdom of verbs, and functions are how you build things. If you added an infix syntax, or some

Re: Can we please deprecate the :use directive ?

2013-08-05 Thread Korny Sietsma
Agree that :use should be deprecated, mostly as it's quite a barrier to folks new to the language that you need to know 3 different parts of the ns macro before you start. However objectively bad is strong language indeed. :refer :all is vital anywhere you want a DSL - if using something like

Re: Interest in a commercial IDE for Clojure?

2013-07-27 Thread Korny Sietsma
* jump-to-symbol-definition - see my post on ST2 in the is intellij idea a good idea thread dated July 25th. I checked that post and couldn't see anything about jump to symbol - I'm mobile though so may have missed something. Can ST2 or 3 do this? - Korny On 28 Jul 2013 04:45, Greg

Re: is intellij idea a good ide for clojure development?

2013-07-25 Thread Korny Sietsma
Indeed - I was using a community-edition intellij setup the other day, and only realised when I went to edit some JavaScript, and found some features missing (like code indenting). We use intellij (mostly) in our team at work, and I use emacs (mostly) at home. My current take on this endless

Re: In what OS do you code?

2013-06-17 Thread Korny Sietsma
Nedelcu m...@alexn.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com wrote: How are all the Linux users handling Java installation? Using an official Oracle installer, or your package manager somehow, or something else? Or using (gasp) openJDK? I'm on Ubuntu and I

Re: In what OS do you code?

2013-06-15 Thread Korny Sietsma
How are all the Linux users handling Java installation? Using an official Oracle installer, or your package manager somehow, or something else? Or using (gasp) openJDK? I use Windows (client mandated) at work and OSX on my laptop. We use Vagrant to run virtual Linux (Centos) boxen at work, with

Re: Database migrations

2013-06-14 Thread Korny Sietsma
We used drift for a while, but found it didn't add much over plain sql, and was forcing us to write down migrations, which imho are a mistake. We ended up moving to Flyway, a very straightforward Java migration library, with a thin clojure wrapper. This has the advantages of using plain sql

Re: Clojure in production

2013-06-13 Thread Korny Sietsma
We're building a few clojure projects at IOOF (a large Australian superannuation firm) - the biggest is a transformation and routing system for communicating with other superannuation companies, written in clojure for the back end, and angular.js for the UI. (It's technically in production but

Re: feeding leiningen a local JAR file

2013-06-09 Thread Korny Sietsma
That looks very helpful, thanks. I've been bitten by this hard in the past - I wanted to play with a few different Processing jars in Quil, none of which had Maven versions; and even using lein-localrepo, it was excessively complex to add these jars to my local maven repo just so I could play

Re: Best IDE

2013-06-04 Thread Korny Sietsma
My 2c - I use emacs, I love it. I don't inflict it on my team, and I strongly disagree with it being easy. To learn the basics, yes, but full fluency? If you have someone fluent in IntelliJ, with the major keystrokes in their muscle memory, and an instinctive familiarity with all the gui

Re: Real-world Clojure application

2013-05-23 Thread Korny Sietsma
The trouble is, so much depends on the problem space. For example, my team is building a real world clojure application - mostly data transformation and routing - but in the real world the actual speed of clojure execution is fairly insignificant compared to I/O. You could extract just the data

Re: Getting highlighted clojure code into a presentation

2013-05-18 Thread Korny Sietsma
wrote: I feel silly for even suggesting but is pprint not good enough? do you need colors? (unaware of what those do in emacs) On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com wrote: Hi folks - I had to prepare some slides for a conference, and I struggled to get nice looking

Getting highlighted clojure code into a presentation

2013-05-17 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi folks - I had to prepare some slides for a conference, and I struggled to get nice looking clojure code onto a slide. I eventually arrived at the following, but it's awfully clunky: * write code in emacs * turn off rainbow delimiters as html-fontify doesn't like them * M-x load-theme

Re: Calling a java function with multiple implementations based on type

2013-05-14 Thread Korny Sietsma
Thanks - I'd missed that, looked at the Java method but not the Clojure type signature :) - Korny On 13 May 2013 16:24, Meikel Brandmeyer (kotarak) m...@kotka.de wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 13. Mai 2013 02:25:03 UTC+2 schrieb Korny: If I call (add-identity agent {:private-key-path foo

Calling a java function with multiple implementations based on type

2013-05-12 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi folks - I met some strange behaviour today using the clj-ssh library - but it looks like it might not be the library's fault as such. If I call (add-identity agent {:private-key-path foo :passphrase bar}) the clj-ssh library (eventually) calls a java method: (.addIdentity agent foo bar) This

Re: Struggling with encapsulation

2013-05-10 Thread Korny Sietsma
I would generally handle this sort of encapsulation at the namespace level. Put (create-woobly) and (add-job) and all the other woobly-related functions into a woobly namespace. Also add any functions that access info from a woobly bag-o-state, or mutate a woobly to make a woobly-with-extras.

Re: Not using dependency injection - how do I share services around?

2013-05-10 Thread Korny Sietsma
It's interesting to note that clojure.java.jdbc used to use our first option - they had a dynamically bound var *db* that you assigned using the (with-connection) macro. As of version 0.0.3 this has been deprecated in favour of something like your second option - now you pass an explicit db

idiomatic way to force evaluation of a lazy operation

2013-05-04 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi folks, we have some code that needs to _not_ be lazy - the rough code we have is: (defn parse-and-store [raw-data] (try (let [records (split-records raw-data) results (map parse-record records)] (do (save-audit-data! raw-data) (map (save-result!

Re: idiomatic way to force evaluation of a lazy operation

2013-05-04 Thread Korny Sietsma
...@mihaljov.info wrote: On 04.05.2013 12:16, Korny Sietsma wrote: What's the idiomatic way to avoid this? The options seem to be either to use (doall (map parse-record records)) or (mapv parse-record records) Is either of these better? The latter is simpler, the former (to me

Re: Lambda Jam schedule posted (Chicago, July 8-10)

2013-04-23 Thread Korny Sietsma
Sounds awesome. For folks in (or near) Australia, we also have the Yow! Lambda Jam conference in Brisbane in May: http://www.yowconference.com.au/lambdajam/index.html Not as stellar a lineup as the Chicago one, but should be a great conference nonetheless. - Korny On 20 April 2013 16:21, Alex

Re: Good Clojure style?

2013-04-14 Thread Korny Sietsma
I've been forgetting my car keys consistently for the last 20 years - but now I'm in my mid 40s it's easy to blame it on ageing :-) I've been coding for longer than I've been losing car keys, and I can't say I've noticed a lot of decline. As for the lack of grey beards at conferences (mentioned

Re: Refactoring tools

2013-03-23 Thread Korny Sietsma
I'd also love something to optimise the ns form - I'm regularly doing tasks by hand that could in theory be automated; adding a new not-yet-imported library can be quite tedious, it'd be great to be able to type (defdb and be able to hit a key combo to add a new :require entry. A generalised

Re: Refactoring tools

2013-03-23 Thread Korny Sietsma
PM, Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com wrote: I'd also love something to optimise the ns form - I'm regularly doing tasks by hand that could in theory be automated; adding a new not-yet-imported library can be quite tedious, it'd be great to be able to type (defdb and be able to hit a key combo

Re: Windows Installation

2013-03-10 Thread Korny Sietsma
As Jonathan Friberg says - lein.bat works fine. As Windows seems to often go hand-in-hand with intrusive proxies, you might also want to make sure you have environment variables HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY pointing to a working proxy, if necessary you can run your own proxy using cntlm :

Re: :use an entire namespace full of protocols or stick with :require?

2013-03-09 Thread Korny Sietsma
[reviving a slightly old thread] Note that as of clojure 1.4 you can also do: (:require foo.bar :refer :all) in fact from comments I've seen elsewhere there is a general intention to remove :use entirely? It'd be good to have some clarity on this. The vast majority of code samples use :use,

Re: Clojure Performance For Expensive Algorithms

2013-02-22 Thread Korny Sietsma
Isn't that always the way, though? Build your program in a powerful, expressive language, then profile it, find the critical parts, and optimise them - where possible in the same language, and where that's too ugly/painful, drop down a layer to a lower level language. I did lots of this in the

Re: emacs - how to wean me off the family of Java IDEs

2013-02-01 Thread Korny Sietsma
. Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com writes: On 17 January 2013 17:26, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.com wrote: Error: Symbol's function definition is void: make-local-hook bump - anyone know a workaround for this - I was interested in sr-speedbar, especially for editing over an ssh

Re: emacs - how to wean me off the family of Java IDEs

2013-02-01 Thread Korny Sietsma
://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/sr-speedbar.el and installing it manually - that seems to work fine (even without disabling make-local-hook). If/when I find time to dig further, I'll try to work out what is going wrong for me with the melpa install. - Korny On 2 February 2013 14:04, Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com

Re: emacs - how to wean me off the family of Java IDEs

2013-01-23 Thread Korny Sietsma
On 17 January 2013 17:26, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.com wrote: Error: Symbol's function definition is void: make-local-hook bump - anyone know a workaround for this - I was interested in sr-speedbar, especially for editing over an ssh session, but it doesn't seem to work with emacs 24?

Re: Decoupling documentation from code?

2013-01-23 Thread Korny Sietsma
, at 23:15, Korny Sietsma wrote: The flip side, of course, is that having documentation separate from code often leads to the documentation becoming out of sync with thecode. What happens when someone renames or moves some code, but doesn't also move the docs? What happens if they change

Re: Decoupling documentation from code?

2013-01-21 Thread Korny Sietsma
The flip side, of course, is that having documentation separate from code often leads to the documentation becoming out of sync with the code. What happens when someone renames or moves some code, but doesn't also move the docs? What happens if they change the implementation? Will people

Re: emacs - how to wean me off the family of Java IDEs

2013-01-17 Thread Korny Sietsma
I've been using projectile for project-level commands, and found it quite good - it autodetects project root from things like .git directories, and then gives you commands like open file in project, search in project etc. - Korny -- Sent from my geek device... Spelling mistakes can be blamed on

Re: If a protocol creates a Java interface under the covers...

2012-06-15 Thread Korny Sietsma
You keep talking about performance. I'm a long way from being a clojure expert, but one thing I *do* know is that premature optimization is the root of many many evils. May I suggest you first get your app working, in a clean understandable fashion, ideally with some solid unit tests. Then, and

Re: A tutorial for how to setup your clojure development environment for: Emacs, Leiningen and Linux.

2012-06-14 Thread Korny Sietsma
Yes emacs is very weird for newbies, but most clojurians use it. I tend to think this is an unnecessary barrier for entry - yes, people would be more productive in the long run using emacs, but it has it's own big learning curve, and is definitely not necessary to get started in clojure. It's

Re: Clojure stack

2011-05-19 Thread Korny Sietsma
Just adding my +1 - as someone relatively new to clojure, leiningen is a great way to get up and running, for a reasonably experienced developer. (It's a big improvement on when I first tried clojure a couple of years ago!) There seem to be windows instructions at

Re: how would I do this functionally? (internally mutable state)

2009-05-29 Thread Korny Sietsma
is fundamentally any different or why there would be such a large performance disparity. I must be missing something big. On May 28, 2009, at 6:50 AM, Korny Sietsma wrote: By the way, in response to whoever suggested pre-sorting files; I sort-of do this (in the old ruby version) but actually

Re: how would I do this functionally? (internally mutable state)

2009-05-28 Thread Korny Sietsma
of get-quickhash and get-hash is delayed. Eval  (nth (get-info a.txt) 1) cause evaluation of get-quickhash, but not get-hash. 2009/5/28 Timothy Pratley timothyprat...@gmail.com: Sounds like a job for lazy-map to me! http://kotka.de/projects/clojure/lazy-map.html On May 28, 11:52 am, Korny

Re: how would I do this functionally? (internally mutable state)

2009-05-28 Thread Korny Sietsma
Cool stuff - I really should go to bed now, but I'll look at this further in the morning. By the way, in response to whoever suggested pre-sorting files; I sort-of do this (in the old ruby version) but actually, mostly the program is looking for duplicate *directories* of files - the goal is to

how would I do this functionally? (internally mutable state)

2009-05-27 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi all, I have some ruby code that I'm thinking of porting to clojure, but I'm not sure how to translate this idiom to a functional world: I have objects that are externally immutable, but have internal mutable state they use for optimisation, specifically in this case to defer un-needed

Re: how would I do this functionally? (internally mutable state)

2009-05-27 Thread Korny Sietsma
suppose you may use state-monads and trie. But it will need a lot of lines of code, and too hard for me. Regards, - Mikio Hokari 2009/5/28 Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com: Hi all, I have some ruby code that I'm thinking of porting to clojure, but I'm not sure how to translate

value of *file* in the REPL - guaranteed?

2009-05-25 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi - I noticed that while http://clojure.org/api#toc16 indicates: *file* The path of the file being evaluated, as a String. Evaluates to nil when there is no file, eg. in the REPL. It actually seems to evaluate to NO_SOURCE_FILE. I'm trying to write a quick and dirty logger that logs to

Re: Olabani says google testing Clojure for appengine

2009-04-08 Thread Korny Sietsma
Phillip Calçado (another Thoughtworker) has also done some playing with this: http://fragmental.tw/2009/04/08/clojure-on-google-app-engine/ - Korny On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM, BerlinBrown berlin.br...@gmail.com wrote: http://olabini.com/blog/tag/gae/ -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my

Re: Ironicly Maven2 is the lightest I could come up with

2009-04-03 Thread Korny Sietsma
to adapt it to multi-module clojure I would try that too. I think Ties is probably closure to what I want though, if it were brought up to date. On Apr 2, 3:10 pm, Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:39 AM, dysinger dysin...@gmail.com wrote: The Java world

Re: Ironicly Maven2 is the lightest I could come up with

2009-04-02 Thread Korny Sietsma
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:39 AM, dysinger dysin...@gmail.com wrote: The Java world for good or bad has rallied around maven repos. There are 10s of thousands of libs up in there. While there are lots of Java / Maven users, there are also a lot who *don't* use it, and indeed many who actively

basic question on structuring refs

2009-03-31 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi - I'm struggling with what is probably a very basic STM problem... so forgive me if I've missed something obvious. I have a world that is a list of structures The world itself will change occasionally - i.e. I'll add or remove structures from the overall list, and I'll regularly be reading

Re: file io

2009-03-30 Thread Korny Sietsma
sweet :) - Korny On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Victor Rodriguez vict...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com wrote: It'd be nice to have a macro that worked more like the first example - spit is great for one-liners, but the fact

Re: file io

2009-03-25 Thread Korny Sietsma
ooh - that's precisely why I was looking into duck-streams myself; thanks for that! Mind you, after a while in the Ruby world, I'd highly recommend looking at YAML for config files - it's human readable and fairly easily writeable, and lets you add arrays, nested structures, etc. fairly easily.

Re: file io

2009-03-24 Thread Korny Sietsma
It'd be nice to have a macro that worked more like the first example - spit is great for one-liners, but the fact that it opens and closes the file each time you call it seems a bit painful for anything more complex. Something that ends up working like: (with-out-as test.txt (println hello)

mocking in clojure

2009-03-13 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi folks - are there any frameworks out there for mocking? Stubbing functions is pretty straightforward (and I see that fact comes with a stubbing function built in), but I'd really like something that can do mocking and mock expectations - something similar to stub, but with checking that the

Re: Static type guy trying to convert

2009-03-12 Thread Korny Sietsma
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Jon Harrop j...@ffconsultancy.com wrote: IME, the trouble can be well worth it. I once wasted two weeks trying to track down bugs in a thousand lines of code using unit tests and never managed it. When I finally caved in and tried to leverage the static type

Re: Java equivalent to Python's Imaging Library (PIL)

2009-03-12 Thread Korny Sietsma
I'm interested too - got some ruby stuff using rmagick I'd like to rewrite - there's jmagick but it sounds like a pain to get it working on osx, and there's a library that wraps imagemagick command-line, but something native that supports: - 48 bits-per-pixel images - colour profiles - digital

Re: What is Clojure NOT good for?

2009-03-11 Thread Korny Sietsma
Agreed. An interesting parallel is getting Java developers to use Javascript well - sure, anyone can look at javascript code and probably work it out - it's a much smaller jump to javascript syntax than clojure syntax. But even so, I know lots of Java coders who never really get javascript stuff

emacs / swank / slime startup problem - ClassNotFoundException: swank.swank

2009-03-03 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi folks; I have an intermittent problem that's driving me nuts. I'm running the emacs-starter-kit setup for editing clojure, recently updated from git, and when I first run M-x slime, I often get the following messages: user= user= java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority

Re: emacs / swank / slime startup problem - ClassNotFoundException: swank.swank

2009-03-03 Thread Korny Sietsma
Thanks - that seemed to fix it! - Korny On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Bradbev brad.beveri...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 3, 4:46 am, Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com wrote: Hi folks; I have an intermittent problem that's driving me nuts. I'm running the emacs-starter-kit setup for editing

Re: unchecked methods for floats/doubles?

2009-02-08 Thread Korny Sietsma
Excellent - thanks for clarifying this! - Korny On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Rich Hickey richhic...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 7, 2009, at 3:43 AM, Korny Sietsma wrote: Ah - I didn't realise that. I was trying to avoid the overhead, as I understood it, of both converting the parameters

Re: unchecked methods for floats/doubles?

2009-02-07 Thread Korny Sietsma
:14 pm, Korny Sietsma ko...@sietsma.com wrote: Hi folks - I was trying the example posted below, and I discovered a slight snag - unchecked-* methods don't exist for doubles or floats! (and if you call (unchecked-multiply 1.2 3.4) you get No matching method found... which caused some confusion

Re: function that takes primitives?

2009-01-23 Thread Korny Sietsma
Fair enough - though my problem couldn't be fixed by caching, it could be inlined without too much pain. I just wanted to check I hadn't missed something - I'm still learning clojure bit by bit, and while it's fabulously well documented for such a new language, it's still easy to miss this sort

function that takes primitives?

2009-01-22 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi folks, Is there any way to make a function that takes primitive parameters? It seems you can't, but I might be missing something. I have the following code (a start to playing with mandelbrot sets): (defn step [x0, y0, xn, yn] (let [xm (+(-(* xn xn)(* yn yn)) x0) ym (+(* 2 xn yn)

updated pdf of clojure manual?

2009-01-22 Thread Korny Sietsma
Hi folks; Is there any way to get an updated dump of clojure.org as a pdf file? I like to print out stuff and read it on the train, and the clojure_manual.pdf available on the google groups site is a tad old, good for an introduction, but I'd like to read the bleeding edge stuff off-line. -

Re: SLIME: trouble with java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

2009-01-11 Thread Korny Sietsma
I have had similar problems with enclojure. But having gone through similar IDE pain working in Ruby on Rails, the Netbeans support ended up being way ahead of most IDEs, so I have hopes that enclojure will get there in time. (My biggest annoyance? The fact that you can't open existing code as

Re: yet another Clojure snake

2009-01-08 Thread Korny Sietsma
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Tom Ayerst tom.aye...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/8 Mark Volkmann r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Tom Ayerst tom.aye...@gmail.com wrote: The point, for me, is that Mark Engelberg's construct allowed the system to work with no

Re: yet another Clojure snake

2009-01-07 Thread Korny Sietsma
As a complete clojure newbie (hi folks!) from a Ruby/Java background, I kind-of don't like either - I'd pull out a named function like: (def add-mix-and-beat [bowl, dry-ingredients wet-ingredients] ... and then use your second example, but now it's: (def make-cookies-2a [flower baking-soda salt