Yep, I mentioned the Almanac to "senior stakeholders" while pitching the book :)
It was a less internet-based age, but I think there is still room for an offline reference. Thanks Renzo On Thursday, 8 December 2016 07:05:07 UTC, Torsten Uhlmann wrote: > > Thanks for working on this! > > Back in the day I had a "Java Developers Almanac" for Java 1.4 and it > helped getting around the lesser used API parts, or discovering > functionality I hadn't used before. > > > Alex Miller <al...@puredanger.com <javascript:>> schrieb am Do., 8. Dez. > 2016 um 04:13 Uhr: > >> This is a good gotcha. From Clojure's perspective this is just >> referencing a Java field (which could be mutable and NOT a constant). Maybe >> it would be possible to reflectively determine that this field is actually >> a constant and make it work, not sure. >> >> The number one special case I see people ask about with case though is >> Java class constants (which are *not* constants and don't work). One >> workaround is to use the class name as a string. >> >> >> On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 5:43:28 PM UTC-6, Ryan Fowler wrote: >>> >>> I love the idea. >>> >>> A gotchas section of some sort could be useful. For instance, a detail >>> about `case` to consider mentioning is that Java Constants don't work as >>> tests. >>> >>> ryans-mbp:~% cat test.clj >>> (let [incoming-character Character/LINE_SEPARATOR] >>> (println "case w/ constant" >>> (case incoming-character >>> Character/LINE_SEPARATOR :line-separator >>> :unknown)) >>> (println "case w/ int " >>> (case incoming-character >>> 13 :line-separator >>> :unknown))) >>> >>> ryans-mbp:~% java -jar $CLOJURE test.clj >>> case w/ constant :unknown >>> case w/ int :line-separator >>> >>> I think I understand why this doesn't work but it feels like it should >>> work. And without prior knowledge, I don't think I would assume that >>> constants don't work. >>> >>> Ryan >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Alex Miller <al...@puredanger.com >>> <javascript:>> wrote: >>> >>>> This is a cool idea so thanks for working on it. >>>> >>>> I was going to buy this (as I buy most of the Clojure books that come >>>> out) but $48 for an unfinished ebook put me off so I didn't. I totally get >>>> why a physical book of this length would be that much (because paper is >>>> expensive right now), but I don't get it with the ebook (particularly EA)? >>>> I know you likely have little control over this, so it's not really fair >>>> to >>>> complain to you, but maybe you can feed it back to your editor. >>>> >>>> While pretty thorough, that case description is still lacking a >>>> description of one important feature - grouping multiple tests that have >>>> the same output in a list. Basically this line from the doc string: >>>> >>>> (test-constant1 ... test-constantN) result-expr >>>> >>>> >>>> Example: >>>> >>>> (case 3 >>>> (1 2 3) "1, 2, or 3" >>>> 4 "4" >>>> (5 6 7) "5, 6, or 7") >>>> >>>> ;;=> "1, 2, or 3" >>>> >>>> I think most people are unaware of this feature and seems like it's the >>>> kind of thing you'd want in the book. >>>> >>>> Alex >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 12:14:29 PM UTC-6, Renzo Borgatti >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I'm very happy to announce the early access of a new book: "Clojure >>>>> Standard Library - Annotated Reference" by Manning. Although it's a >>>>> reference of the roughly 700+ functions (and macros) coming out of the >>>>> box >>>>> with the Clojure jar file, it is not designed to read as a boring list. >>>>> Think of all the Stackoverflow, mailing lists, ClojureDocs, articles, >>>>> blogs >>>>> all mashed together to create an essay for each function. The book >>>>> website >>>>> is: >>>>> >>>>> https://www.manning.com/books/clojure-standard-library >>>>> >>>>> It contains now a total of 4 chapters (around 200 pages) or ~30 >>>>> functions, starting with some of the most important available in the >>>>> standard library. Here's a sample of “case" how it appears on the book >>>>> http://tinyurl.com/hekc55u to give you an idea of the kind of >>>>> treatment they get. Needless to say any feedback is highly appreciated. >>>>> Any >>>>> question please shout here, personally at reborg*at*reborg.net or on >>>>> the book forum. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Renzo >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com >>>> <javascript:> >>>> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >>>> your first post. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >>>> 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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