Well, perhaps if str-utils becomes the universal standard for string operations, it would be rolled into Clojure come 2.0?
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@laposte.net>wrote: > > On 18.04.2009, at 12:15, John Newman wrote: > > > 2) One way to maintain Clojure's flexibility would be if it were > > like what the kernel is to a Linux distribution. What if every > > distribution had to use the same standard set of packages? The > > Linux ecosystem is much richer today because the kernel can develop > > somewhat independently of the applications that target it. > > True, but there is still a standard set of packages (or rather > functionalities) that all but the most specialized Linux > distributions contain and that everybody expects to find in a > "normal" Linux distribution. Things like the shell, ls, rm, etc. > > > One way to compensate for a lack of "batteries included" might be a > > powerful, agnostic library management solution, which allows for > > different contrib libraries, VMs, or architectures, but that > > definitely seems like a 2.0 feature. > > That sounds like a lot of work, and it won't take care of one > important contribution of a standard library: standardization for > basic, well-understood tasks. It's no fun to program in an > environment where there are three competing libraries for parsing > HTML that differ only in function names and parameter order. > > Konrad. > > > > > -- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
