On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote:
> Am 18.09.2011 um 05:55 schrieb Ken Wesson:
>>
>> The easiest might be to just pass a map literal (in String form)
>> through the Clojure reader. Variable integers or other simple objects
>> can just be incorporated using the Java String + operator; the
>> concatenation will always start with a string literal such as "{" so
>> this will work in general. (It's likely keywords etc. will be constant
>> while numbers might be variable.)
>
> It's a complete mystery to me why people in the 21st century still promote
> messing around with strings as FFI when an easy and simple programmatic
> interface exists, which will *always* work – not only with literals the
> reader understands. Not to speak about quoting hell and other gotchas.
Tell me which is simpler:
Reader.read("{:foo 1 :bar " + x + "}");
or
Var keyword = RT.var("clojure.core", "keyword");
Var hashMap = RT.var("clojure.core", "hash-map");
hashMap.invoke(keyword.invoke("foo"), 1, keyword.invoke("bar"), x);
Nobody suggested using the reader in the cases where it is actually
more compact to express using stuff like the above, by the way.
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