I beg to differ. You can't separate an assessment of idiomaticity
from the specific problem domain. *That* is true no matter what the
language.
On Feb 27, 9:48 am, Marko Topolnik <marko.topol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:28:03 PM UTC+1, Andy Fingerhut wrote:
>
> If you wanted to create a collection of idiomatic Clojure programs for
>
> > solving a particular set of problems, e.g. the Benchmarks Game problems, as
> > soon as more than one person submitted a program and/or reviewed a program,
> > there could arise arguments over which ones are idiomatic and which are not.
>
> > If one person is maintaining the collection, they can make judgement calls
> > on this, and/or keep multiple different submissions around to solve the
> > same problem as all equally idiomatic, even though they use different code
> > constructs to do it.
>
> There is much truth in this; however, I bet that all those programs could
> in fact be considered idomatic from a wider perspective. One guy prefers *
> (reduce...assoc)* where another prefers *(into {}...map...)* and that's OK.
> However, if someone comes along with *(let [m (HashMap.)] (loop []...(recur
> (.put m ...)))* claiming that is in fact idomatic, he's just being
> unreasonable---by everyone's agreement. Yes, in the final analysis there
> will always be a fine dividing line over which everyone involved will love
> to disagree, but that's a lesser concern.
>
> -Marko
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