On Feb 10, 9:33 pm, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 10.02.2011 um 16:27 schrieb jkrueger: > > > a) This is essential to writing understandable code, so it would be > > nice if the language supported it out of the box > > Is that so? I'd rather say that this a personal opinion of yours. There are > different ways to organise code and neither is superior to the other. Just > different. >
Well... It is Robert C. Martin's opinion. I just happen to agree with him. I don't mean to call on a higher authority as an argument stopper. But people who have put a lot of thought into organizing code, seem to have arrived at this opinion. I definitely phrased the original sentence too strongly. I should have said that I _think_ that it is essential to writing readable code. > > b) A namespace feels to me like a set of functions (ns-publics > > actually returns a map). That Clojure enforces a particular ordering > > (if we forget about the "declare" kludge) while writing a namespace > > seems arbitrary from a programmers point of view. > > But Clojure's model of evaluation of a namespace also has a simple elegance. > Defining a function is treated equally to adding two numbers. Everything is > consistent. It is easy to determine what happens when. There are no special > cases. This should seem quite logic from a programmers point of view. > I'm perfectly willing to be convinced that I'm wrong if there are good reasons not do this in Clojure. That's why i brought it up as a discussion. Additional complexity in the core language is obviously a concern. Still, I feel that the fixed ordering is a restriction that is very bothersome when trying to clean up my code. I think I will spent some more time thinking about how this would actually affect the language. > Sincerely > Meikel -- 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
