+100. Doc, source, ns-publics etc. will drive adoption.

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On Oct 14, 2011, at 7:07 PM, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Frank,
> 
> Apologies, ClojureScript at the moment is designed with a bit of a bias 
> towards people to who already know Clojure. This is unfortunate since there 
> are many people who could use ClojureScript *today* who don't need or want to 
> invest in Clojure on the JVM.
> 
> Because of the bias some obvious things aren't there yet (remember this is a 
> language that's about 4 months old). Perhaps including docstrings should be a 
> compiler option which is enabled by default (not compiling in advanced mode). 
> Perhaps it should also be the default when launching the Rhino based REPL. I 
> think that including the full set of documentation functions from Clojure 
> would be big usability win.
> 
> Thanks for bringing it up, we'll try to work on it.
> 
> David
> 
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Curious Fox <fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any easy way to discover available functions in ClojureScript
> REPL?
> 
> I ended up reading source code and documenting it all in an org-mode
> file, is it the best strategy? How can I improve it?
> 
> Am I correct that 'doc and 'find-doc are not available during REPL
> since it's running on JavaScript platform, which doesn't have
> reflection and do not support metadata?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Frank
> 
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