Does Potemkin work well with clojurescript? I have seen some discussion of issues in some places. Is there anywhere that notes challenges?
I am particularly interested with the import-vars scenario (defining namespaces separately and then merging definitions into one namespace for usage). Dave On Thursday, 20 June 2013 13:38:32 UTC+10, Jason Wolfe wrote: > > We're starting to use potemkin at Prismatic, and the part we've found most > useful which Zach didn't mention in his post are the smart types. > Especially definterface+, which is like a love child of defprotocol and > definterface: > - Same syntax as defprotocol, and defines functions in your namespace > that wrap the interface functions (without extend-protocol support, > obviously) > - Allows for primitive arguments and return values (like > clojure.core/definterface), which are propagated to the wrapper functions > for maximal performance > - Doesn't re-evaluate if the body has not changed, which can make repl > development less painful (especially when used with its defrecord+ > counterpart). > > > > On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:12:41 PM UTC-7, Zach Tellman wrote: >> >> Potemkin [1] is a collection of facades and utilities that I've found >> helpful when writing larger-scale libraries or applications. I've never >> formally announced it before, but I think it's gotten to the point where >> others can benefit from it. >> >> A few highlights: >> >> * 'def-map-type', which allows for the definition of custom map-like >> objects with 10x less code >> * 'unify-gensyms', which allows for more concise nested syntax-quotes >> * 'import-vars', which allows for code sprinkled across multiple >> namespaces to be exposed via a single namespace >> >> It's been pointed out before that ideally a library should have no >> dependencies but Clojure itself, or we risk transitive dependency conflicts >> when everyone uses different versions of a utility library. In deference >> to this, Potemkin is licensed such that any piece of code can be simply >> pasted into your library, as long as there's a comment describing the >> origin. >> >> If anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer them. If anyone has moral >> or aesthetic objections to 'import-vars', you're not alone, but please >> remember you're under no obligation to use it. >> >> Zach >> >> [1] https://github.com/ztellman/potemkin >> > -- 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/d/optout.
