On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:14:16 -0500, lprefontaine wrote: > Sticking to long and double gets away from Java semantic but it is done > to improve numeric performances. You can actually hint in 1,3 on the > return type of a function to avoid automatic boxing and have your code > work entirely with a "native" type. Boxing if I recall correctly will > convert systematically to BigDecimal. > > Any computation could then be carried on, even if it does not fit in one > of the "native" types (long or double). > > If you work explicitly with longs or doubles, it's at the expense of > (potential) overflow exceptions. If you have a intense numeric > computations it is assumed that you know about these potential limits. > > As for the syntax to pass bytes, ints, ... to Java, I cannot recall the > exact syntax to do it but it should be similar to type hints used in > 1.2. > > No idea if the Conj videos are available yet... > They don't seem to be mentioned on http://clojure-conj.org/ -- and http:// clojure.blip.tv/ has been mostly inactive.
Could we see more videos posted on blip.tv? I like how you can actually download the original video files from there (and revver, and vimeo; unlike YouTube, bah -- officially, anyway). -- Michel Alexandre Salim Clojure contributor: http://clojure.org/contributing GPG key ID: 78884778 µblog: http://identi.ca/hircus | Jabber: hir...@jabber.ccc.de http://twitter.com/hircus | IRC: hir...@irc.freenode.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- 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