Thanks for the critic Laurent.
set-date is not destructive, it creates a new date and returns it, the
original is unaltered,
but I agree that the documentation and the function name may be
deceiving, I'll think about a better name and change the docs.

Islon

On Jun 29, 5:29 pm, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or to be more constructive:
>
> maybe set-date &al should be renamed set-date! ...
>
> ... the more "clojurish" a library will look like, the more
> expectations people will have on it (principle of least surprise) even
> before verifying their assumptions are true (e.g. a "pure clojure"
> library => works with immutable -if not persistent- datastructures)
>
> My 0.02€,
>
> --
> Laurent
>
> 2011/6/29 Islon Scherer <islonsche...@gmail.com>:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hello people.
> > I've created date-clj, a date/time library for clojure.
> > I know there's clj-time already but I was thinking about something
> > less javaish and more like date.js.
>
> > Some examples:
>
> > (date :day 25 :month :november :year 2000)
> > -> #<Date Sat Nov 25 00:00:00 BRST 2000>
>
> > (-> (today) (set-date :month :december :year 1900))
> > -> #<Date Sat Dec 29 16:44:33 BRST 1900>
>
> > (from-now 1 :year 5 :days)
> > -> #<Date Wed Jul 04 16:44:33 BRST 2012>
>
> > (back 1 :month 200 :minutes)
> > -> #<Date Sun May 29 13:26:33 BRST 2011>
>
> > (following :friday)
> > -> #<Date Fri Jul 01 16:47:17 BRST 2011>
>
> > (-> (today) (is? :friday 13))
> > -> false
>
> > (-> (back 3 :days) (was? :sunday))
> > -> true
>
> > (-> (april) sundays first)
> > -> #<Date Sun Apr 03 00:00:00 BRST 2011>
>
> > (-> (following :month) fridays last)
> > -> #<Date Fri Jul 29 00:00:00 BRST 2011>
>
> > (monday)
> > -> #<Date Mon Jun 27 00:00:00 BRST 2011>
>
> > (binding [*locale* (Locale/GERMAN)] (names :week-days))
> > -> ("Sontag" "Montag" "Dienstag" "Mittwoch" "Donnerstag" "Freitag"
> > "Samstag")
>
> > The project page is:http://github.com/stackoverflow/date-clj
>
> > Critics and ideas are welcome =)
> > Regards,
> > Islon
>
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