Yeah, I can see how to make it work but I'm worried about lifecycle issues. What if my customers insist on the ability to retract a spec? Showing them a Rich Hickey video is not a particularly good response :) Leaving that aside, users who just play around risk polluting the global registry and, in the worst case, creating memory issues.
On Monday, June 12, 2017 at 12:37:09 PM UTC-7, Sean Corfield wrote: > > So, you would give all those end-user-created specs a unique namespace > prefix which identified them as part of your application. As Alex > indicated, spec is predicated on the use of appropriately qualified names, > so that they have global meaning. > > > > Sean Corfield -- (970) FOR-SEAN -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > > > On 6/12/17, 12:34 PM, "Mark" <clo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> on > behalf of markad...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > 'm thinking of exposing the spec machinery to my app's end users who would > build specs (probably using a graphical tool) to facilitate building data > pipelines. It seems that the global registry assumes a particular > lifecycle for specs which is probably perfect for developer-centric use > cases. I believe I'll want a different lifecycle for specs written by end > users. > > > > > On Monday, June 12, 2017 at 12:19:04 PM UTC-7, Sean Corfield wrote: > > Can you explain why you think this is the case Mark? > > > > We use spec heavily in production (and have been doing so for months) so > I’m not following your logic here I’m afraid… > > > > Sean Corfield -- (970) FOR-SEAN -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > > > On 6/12/17, 10:37 AM, "Mark" <clo...@googlegroups.com on behalf of > markad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm a bit surprised by this. It seems that the use of the global registry > limits spec to development use cases. Is that intentional? Maybe I'm > worried over nothing > > On Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 11:04:17 AM UTC-7, Alex Miller wrote: > > We don't have any plans at the moment to support anything but the global > registry. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clo...@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+u...@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+u...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- 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.
