I hope folks here don't mind this post. The following article explains how to do reactive programming in F#: http://tomasp.net/blog/reactive-i-fsevents.aspx (the bottom of the article has links to rest of the articles in the series)
There has been some recent discussion on CELLs in Clojure. There was some question of motivation behind 'reactive' programming...I believe this article makes the ideas a bit more concrete. Since Clojure already has some features for concurrent programming, I believe the reactive model should also be easy to accommodate. In F#, one can filter/map/reduce events (and much more) just as if they were operations on a list. How would this be done in cells? How would one combine or split several cells? This type of data-flow programming also brings clojure one step closer my dream of a super-spreadsheet: Instead of typing out expressions on an REPL, why not make the REPL non-linear and allow users to enter expressions in 2-d space (similar to a grid...but without the grid). Unlike Excel, clojure could also very easily let end-users define their own functions and use them in expressions (thereby vastly improving the lack of abstractions in current spread sheets) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
