Hi all, While building the API for core.matrix, I've fun into a few cases where the "best" name is a direct clash with clojure.core.
Examples are "+", "zero?", "vector?", "==" In many of these cases, the core.matrix behaviour is a natural extension of the clojure.core function (i.e. it extends the same functionality to arbitrary N-dimensional arrays). I'm not very happy with any of the options I can see for handling this: A) Use the good names in the "clojure.core.matrix" namespace. Problem: that gives you a ton of nasty warnings of the type "WARNING: + already refers to: #'clojure.core/+ in namespace: test.blank, being replaced by: #'clojure.core.matrix/+". Significant boilerplate must be maintained by the user in their ns declaration to prevent these warnings. I don't like forcing users to maintain boilerplate, and I think that normal idiomatic usage should be warning-free. B) Separate the name-clashing functions into separate namespaces - e.g. "clojure.core.matrix.operators". Problem: that's something of an artificial division, and again it forces users to do extra ns-management work to access the functions they want. C) Use different names. Problem: names would be worse, and this would be inconsistent and confusing, especially for functions that do effectively the same thing. D) Encourage users to use aliases. Problem: that's horrendously ugly and inconvenient for numerical code. Users with any sense of elegance in their coding style would quite rightly throw their hands up in disgust. Currently we're doing B), I'd prefer to do A) but can't figure out a way to automatically suppress the warnings. Any better ideas? -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
