Surely nobody can restrict/enforce anything on anybody, and I can always have my own "mycore" ns. In theory, I could even create my own language without the need to persuade anybody (or just fork from Clojure and have my own private copy). That will be the ultimate "Libertarian", but some people (including myself) may call me "savage" in doing so, unless you can attract enough people to form a new society around you, like Rich has done. :-)
On Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:26:07 PM UTC-4, tbc++ wrote: > > > Nevertheless, I hope I've clarified the reasoning behind the current > > design. Early Clojure design decisions have a lot of inertia, so as > David > > pointed out, this is very unlikely to change. > > Well put. > > I would argue as well, that many functional languages I've come across > take this stance: the language is opensource, you have namespaces, so > feel free to make a namespace called mycore, that includes all you > special versions of functions that you need, and then use that library > for your projects. It doesn't take very long to define these special > case functions and if they work for you, then just use them. For > instance, one such function I wrote tonight is called every-other > (returns '(1 3 5) if you hand it (1 2 3 4 5)) > > Does this function exist in clojure.core...not that I saw off-hand. > Does it really matter though? Not really. I'll copy and paste these > functions when I need them and go happily on my way. One of the > biggest strengths of functional programming is that we can build up > snippets of functions like this, and when we use then in our programs > we can't tell that they weren't included by default. > > As Gerald Sussman said at the last Strange Loop conference: be a > Libertarian when it comes to programming. Don't restrict others to > your view of programming, liberty to you and to me and to everyone. > You can code in your style, I'll code in mine, and Clojure (or Lisp in > the case of the quote), shouldn't constrain me to its view of the > world. > > Timothy > -- 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
