>Although implementing Clojure-in-Clojure no doubt should be done, that >does not make lein work on other platforms,
Very true. But what it does do is abstract away the core elements of Clojure. ISeq, IPersistentList, PersistentList, etc. are all cross platform. All you need is a "emit-class" function that understands how to generate private members, methods, and handle inheritance. All of the concurrency routines can be handled via classes and CompareAndSwap. What I would love, is to be able to tell the Clojure compiler "here is how you generate classes, here is how you call CompareAndSwap....now go and build me classes found in Ref.java, LockingTransaction.java, Atom.java, etc." This is pretty much the way GNU Classpath works. You have to define the lowest level structs (VMInt, VMObject, VMFile, VMSocket, etc.) and from there every single part of the class library is simply Java abstractions of those base classes. Timothy On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:46 AM, dmiller <dmiller2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 17, 10:07 am, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > With the clojureclr for example, it >> > supports pretty much everything clojure does sans java, and gains all the >> > .net interop. >> >> True...true, it supports it, but it's still a "2nd class citizen". For >> instance, we don't have lein, ring, parts of contrib, IDEs, etc. All >> the examples, all the books are all about Clojure on the JVM. Do >> anything else and you can forget using Clojars, and 90% of the >> ecosystem built around Clojure. >> >> Now, what should be done at some point (IMO) is to implement Clojure >> in Clojure. > > Although implementing Clojure-in-Clojure no doubt should be done, that > does not make lein work on other platforms, it does not create IDEs > that are effective for other platforms (Visual Studio), it does not > translate the contrib libs, etc. > > -David > > -- > 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 -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- 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
