2009/3/16 Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> > > > > On 16 Mar, 21:57, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I agree that it's not difficult. But, at least in my own experience, it's > > not the second step to cleaning up my programs. > > > > I generally try to get code that works, even if in a not really good > looking > > shape. Then I refactor if it is really ugly-looking, or when I see the > > possibility to factorize between several functions. > > > > So I end up with more general functions, but still, I'm not sure if they > > deserve their own lib. And maybe they're just general enough for the > purpose > > of the functions of my current file. > > > > It's in a third time, when I want to share code between several > namespaces, > > that libraries in their own namespace show up. > > > > So I think there's room for what I suggested, because the step to > seperate > > functions into libs by a criteria of level of abstraction does not appear > > that fast in my programming cycle. > > You have just described my way of churning out code for fast > prototypes and ad-hoc programs. Abstractions and cleaning up come > later, once I've understood the task at hand better.
Exactly. And nowdays, I often realize it's not just "understanding the task at hand" that makes me follow this "unformal process", but also the need/time to first become familiar with the third party lib/framework I'm willing to involve. And generally, those libs/frameworks are hard to grasp at first (at least if I want to not have just "read code" in a day of coding), so I think this notion of "understanding the task at hand" can be generalized not only to the task of "understanding my problem domain", but also to "understanding how to use the libs/frameworks that promise me a clean way of solving my problem domain" :-). > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
