Hi! I've back to Clojure env. after 3 years of absence.
I have started to code in my best language ever and was hit by some difficulties with the simplest things on earth I remember when I first dived into language and started coding in it. After 4 months of heavy doc/forum/irc usage I was able to quickly express myself in the Clojure. All for then was for me clear, natural and easy. Now after some long brake I'm back and now I can make some critics on the language sine I know what Clojure can offer me and I know what from concise dynamic language with abstraction in mind I should expect. Now lets talk about "difficulties" which I have found. For example when we talk about removing element from collection. Why there is no one operation which could behave the same for set, vector, list, string, and map? Let the community talk by themselves: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28844647/why-are-disj-and-dissoc-distinct-functions-in-clojure Why there is no one operation for checking if an element is in a collection/keys of map/string? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3249334/test-whether-a-list-contains-a-specific-value-in-clojure There is no even simple method for saying that element is not a nil. This requires from me the (not (nil? %)) combo. Now how suppose the world should pray to Clojure when they are unable to accomplish these simplest ops? Just add these simple functions to the core lib so the new comers won't whine on Clojure and when they get mature and more comfortable with Clojure they will just use the "core & idiomatic" set of functions. -- 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.
