+1 I was thinking of doing the same in the validation lib I published recently [1] and this thread came in handy. I haven't implemented it yet but having a common way in which people do this seems reasonable - if it's in core then all the better.
Cheers, Leo [1] - https://github.com/leonardoborges/bouncer Leonardo Borges www.leonardoborges.com On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Brian Marick <mar...@exampler.com> wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Here's what I use to pull symbols from Enlive into FW/1: > > > Midje plays similar tricks to make namespace abilities available via one > `use`. > > Which makes me think: > > 1: In the old patterns world, there was a "rule of three" which claimed that > something shouldn't be published as a pattern until it could be demonstrated > in three real systems. > > 2: Lispers like Gabriel and others noted that what were patterns in languages > like Smalltalk and C++ were built into Lisp or were easily regularized > in-language with macros. > > Therefore: to me, this email thread suggests that the ability to do such > consolidation should be immortalized not in email examples of patterns > ("here's how I accomplished X") but - in a more Lispy fashion - by writing a > common library and making it available to the user base. That is: functions > like Adam's and Sean's and mine should be in some official library close to > clojure.core. > > -------- > Occasional consulting on programming technique > Contract programming in Ruby and Clojure > Latest book: /Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer/ > https://leanpub.com/fp-oo > > -- > 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 -- 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
