.car +1 (jar pun)
On Aug 7, 5:45 am, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ruby and Gem is such great terminology, can we come up with something
> half as cool?
>
> Want something short (3 - 4 letters) suitable as a file extension perhaps.
>
> Brainstorming some ideas:
>
> cap: "Clojure Archive Package"
> cpa: "Clojure Package Archive"
> ca: "Clojure Archive"
> car: "Clojure Archive" (half-assed pun on Lisp's car, plus you can
> imagine the icon!)
> clib: "Clojure Library"
> clip: "Clojure Library Package"
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Lauri Pesonen<lauri.peso...@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> > 2009/8/6 James Reeves <weavejes...@googlemail.com>:
>
> >> On Aug 6, 8:31 pm, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I'm cringing at the sight of XML here.
>
> >> XML is frequently overused, but it is a good format for representing
> >> dense, structured data. For example:
>
> >> <repository name="third-party">
> >> <package name="Compojure" href="/compojure.xml"/>
> >> </repository>
>
> >> Compared to:
>
> >> {:type :repository
> >> :name "third-party"
> >> :content [{ :type :package
> >> :name "Compojure"
> >> :href "/compojure.xml" }]}
>
> > Surely we can do better with s-expressions:
>
> > (:repository "third-party" [(:package "Compojure" "/compojure.xml")])
>
> > I guess it might get a bit trickier if you have a lot of optional
> > attributes...
>
> > And you can use the s-expressions as an on the wire interchange format
> > as well, which works especially well if both ends are written in lisp.
>
> > --
> > ! Lauri
>
> --
> Howard M. Lewis Ship
>
> Creator of Apache Tapestry
> Director of Open Source Technology at Formos
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