I think that's true, but even back in 2015, these were the only two sources calling for this approach, and it never really caught on. I even did some experiments with it, but my conclusion was that it was more trouble than it was worth.
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Sean Corfield <s...@corfield.org> wrote: > I think part of the issue is that the article dates back to mid-2015 and > `clojure.spec` wasn’t a thing back then, was it? > > > > Variants feel like a solution to a problem for which we have a much better > solution _*today*_ than we did two years ago. The article talks about > using core.typed and core.match with variants – because that’s what we had > then. I’m fairly sure that if Eric (and Jeanine) were writing their > material today, we’d see `clojure.spec` front and center and regular hash > maps being used. > > > > 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 > > > > *From: *Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com> > *Sent: *Tuesday, August 22, 2017 6:00 PM > *To: *clojure@googlegroups.com > *Subject: *Re: Sum types in Clojure? Better to represent as tagged > records or asvariant vectors? > > > > I think the article is a bit misleading. Variants were never that popular > in Clojure. Infact I've never seen them used in production code or the most > common Clojure libraries. So I'm a bit perplexed as to why the article > recommends them so strongly. > > > > So I think the answer is, they are a fun thought experiment in Clojure, > but are of limited usefulness due to the tools we have available that make > them unneeded. > > > > It's a bit like recommending that new users use actors in Clojure. Sure, > you can shoehorn them in, but there's a reason why they aren't the default. > > -- > > “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking > zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C > programs.” > (Robert Firth) > > -- > 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. > > > > -- > 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. > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- 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.
