New Functional Programming Job Opportunities

2014-05-19 Thread Functional Jobs
Here are some functional programming job opportunities that were posted

recently:



Software Developer (natural language processing, deep semantic search) at

SEMPRIA

http://functionaljobs.com/jobs/8711-software-developer-natural-language-processing-deep-semantic-search-at-sempria



Cheers,

Sean Murphy

FunctionalJobs.com


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Re: citing Clojure and EDN?

2014-05-19 Thread Phillip Lord
Jony Hudson jonyepsi...@gmail.com writes:

 On Thursday, 15 May 2014 14:58:50 UTC+1, Phillip Lord wrote:


 Again, based on the dubious ID that an DOI makes things citable. 

 A URL is already citable! 


 Well, there's no shortage of broken links out there to suggest that people 
 have trouble keeping content associated with stable URLs. The main value of 
 DOI, IMHO, is they're an explicit commitment to make something persistently 
 available - just what you want for citations.


Actually, they don't. I've broken quite a few DOIs in my time. What they
offer is the guarantee that a DOI will not be handed out twice. So, you
avoid the situation where a domain name is unregistered, someone else
buys it, and the links are replaced with porn.

Now, there is an explicit commitment from crossref (one of the nine
bodies that hands out DOIs) over the way that the DOI resolves and what
is resolves to. But the strength of this commitment comes from a social
and legal agreement, not a technological one. So, URIs such as
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ offer the same guarantee of stability.
Indeed, the display standard for representing DOIs is that is
represented as a URI. So URIs are not intrinsincally unstable. And the
W3C URL has the *big* advantage that it does not require a two-step
resolution. So, the URI that you see in your browser is the URI that you
use. With a DOI, the URI is a passing, ephemeral thing.


DOIs are treated as some sort of magic -- figshare use the make data
citable tagline largely on the basis of hey, it's got a DOI; I find
this over-simplistic. DOIs have their place, but it is not everywhere,
and they are not automatically better than a URI.

Phil





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Re: [ANN] ring-auth middleware for protecting sessions

2014-05-19 Thread Aaron Bedra

On 05/18/2014 09:25 AM, James Reeves wrote:
 I don't want to seem like I'm badgering you. You have a lot of sound
 ideas. But I don't think we should be trying to work around insecure
 designs; we should be making it easier for people to design things
 securely.

 In terms of /specific/ things wrong that I've yet to mention: the
 middleware you have won't work for all session stores; only session
 stores that create a new session if a key is not found. Ideally
 session stores should reject session IDs that don't exist, rather than
 construct new ones.

 - James

After reading this thread I would like to make a couple of quick points.
I think that ring-auth is a step in the right direction and has the
right end goals in mind. To cut past the tension a bit I think that what
James is trying to say is let's try to make this less confusing and
work within the constraints of the current system. This really isn't a
bad idea. In fact, it is usually the way to succeed as an add-on to a
library. I understand all of the original points made by Brendan and
agree with almost all of them. That being said, I would encourage a
little more work here to try and blend just a bit more. I am happy to
take this off list and start a more productive discussion on how with a
smaller group if there's interest.

- Aaron




 On 18 May 2014 14:06, Brendan Younger brendan.youn...@gmail.com
 mailto:brendan.youn...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Saturday, May 17, 2014 9:03:01 PM UTC-4, James Reeves wrote:

 On 18 May 2014 00:09, Brendan Younger brendan...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 For anyone else following along at home, I'll just
 re-iterate the benefits of using ring-auth versus trying
 to write your routes /just right/ to avoid the myriad
 security issues listed at OWASP.

 - If you initiate a session with a user over HTTP and
 later on that user logs in over HTTPS but you don't change
 the session id in the cookie, then everyone at the coffee
 shop has access to the authenticated session.  Ring-auth
 protects you from this.


 This is true, but I don't think we should be aiming to protect
 people from doing the wrong thing, so much as stop them from
 doing it in the first place.

 You seem to be aiming this middleware at people concerned
 about security, but not so concerned as to follow best
 practice. I'm a little baffled by this use-case.


 On the contrary, I'm protecting the user from oversights or bugs
 in the webapp.  Saying that there would be no security issues if
 only everyone wrote perfect software is a tautology.
  

  

 - If you use a CSRF middleware, but at any time leak the
 session id cookie over HTTP, then your CSRF protection is
 broken.  Ring-auth protects you from this.


 CSRF protection doesn't matter if your session is compromised.
 CSRF is a mechanism for sending a HTTP POST with the user's
 session ID. If you already have the session ID, there's very
 few reasons why you'd bother with CSRF.

 - If you ever send your CSRF token over HTTP, then the
 entire coffee shop can entice the user to Click here
 now! and send money to their off-shore account.
  Ring-auth helps you avoid sending the CSRF token in the
 clear.


 Hm? How? There doesn't appear to be anything in your code that
 looks for the CSRF token embedded in the response body.


 Because the :csrf-token is only present in the :auth-session, you
 can be sure that if your code has access to the :csrf-token, then
 it's communicating over HTTPS with the user.  I could not use
 ring-anti-forgery here because there is no provision to place the
 token in anything except :session.
   

 - If you get a request over HTTP which should have gone
 over HTTPS and respond with an error, but don't
 immediately delete the session, then everyone at the
 coffee shop has seen the authenticated session id
 (assuming you forgot to set Secure).  Ring-auth protects
 you from this.


 Again, I don't understand the use-case for this. Setting the
 secure flag on the session cookie is the clearly the better
 option. I'm having trouble seeing how you'd present this in
 your project's README.
  

 - If a user closes their browser on a public computer but
 forgets to sign off, the next user can go back to the
 site, and hopefully the browser has cached the cookie
 giving them access to the first user's account.  Ring-auth
 will help prevent this as soon as the Cache-Control
 header is set.


 A session idle-timeout isn't necessarily a bad 

Re: [ANN] ring-auth middleware for protecting sessions

2014-05-19 Thread Aaron Bedra

On 05/18/2014 09:25 AM, James Reeves wrote:
 I don't want to seem like I'm badgering you. You have a lot of sound
 ideas. But I don't think we should be trying to work around insecure
 designs; we should be making it easier for people to design things
 securely.

 In terms of /specific/ things wrong that I've yet to mention: the
 middleware you have won't work for all session stores; only session
 stores that create a new session if a key is not found. Ideally
 session stores should reject session IDs that don't exist, rather than
 construct new ones.

 - James

After reading this thread I would like to make a couple of quick points.
I think that ring-auth is a step in the right direction and has the
right end goals in mind. To cut past the tension a bit I think that what
James is trying to say is let's try to make this less confusing and
work within the constraints of the current system. This really isn't a
bad idea. In fact, it is usually the way to succeed as an add-on to a
library. I understand all of the original points made by Brendan and
agree with almost all of them. That being said, I would encourage a
little more work here to try and blend just a bit more. I am happy to
take this off list and start a more productive discussion on how with a
smaller group if there's interest.

- Aaron




 On 18 May 2014 14:06, Brendan Younger brendan.youn...@gmail.com
 mailto:brendan.youn...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Saturday, May 17, 2014 9:03:01 PM UTC-4, James Reeves wrote:

 On 18 May 2014 00:09, Brendan Younger brendan...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 For anyone else following along at home, I'll just
 re-iterate the benefits of using ring-auth versus trying
 to write your routes /just right/ to avoid the myriad
 security issues listed at OWASP.

 - If you initiate a session with a user over HTTP and
 later on that user logs in over HTTPS but you don't change
 the session id in the cookie, then everyone at the coffee
 shop has access to the authenticated session.  Ring-auth
 protects you from this.


 This is true, but I don't think we should be aiming to protect
 people from doing the wrong thing, so much as stop them from
 doing it in the first place.

 You seem to be aiming this middleware at people concerned
 about security, but not so concerned as to follow best
 practice. I'm a little baffled by this use-case.


 On the contrary, I'm protecting the user from oversights or bugs
 in the webapp.  Saying that there would be no security issues if
 only everyone wrote perfect software is a tautology.
  

  

 - If you use a CSRF middleware, but at any time leak the
 session id cookie over HTTP, then your CSRF protection is
 broken.  Ring-auth protects you from this.


 CSRF protection doesn't matter if your session is compromised.
 CSRF is a mechanism for sending a HTTP POST with the user's
 session ID. If you already have the session ID, there's very
 few reasons why you'd bother with CSRF.

 - If you ever send your CSRF token over HTTP, then the
 entire coffee shop can entice the user to Click here
 now! and send money to their off-shore account.
  Ring-auth helps you avoid sending the CSRF token in the
 clear.


 Hm? How? There doesn't appear to be anything in your code that
 looks for the CSRF token embedded in the response body.


 Because the :csrf-token is only present in the :auth-session, you
 can be sure that if your code has access to the :csrf-token, then
 it's communicating over HTTPS with the user.  I could not use
 ring-anti-forgery here because there is no provision to place the
 token in anything except :session.
   

 - If you get a request over HTTP which should have gone
 over HTTPS and respond with an error, but don't
 immediately delete the session, then everyone at the
 coffee shop has seen the authenticated session id
 (assuming you forgot to set Secure).  Ring-auth protects
 you from this.


 Again, I don't understand the use-case for this. Setting the
 secure flag on the session cookie is the clearly the better
 option. I'm having trouble seeing how you'd present this in
 your project's README.
  

 - If a user closes their browser on a public computer but
 forgets to sign off, the next user can go back to the
 site, and hopefully the browser has cached the cookie
 giving them access to the first user's account.  Ring-auth
 will help prevent this as soon as the Cache-Control
 header is set.


 A session idle-timeout isn't necessarily a bad 

Joy of Clojure example not working

2014-05-19 Thread gamma235
Hi guys, I am working through the pre-release second edition of Joy of 
Clojure's section on multi-methods (section 9.2.~ : pg. 313), and am 
getting different outputs from what they have printed in the book. I could 
just skip over it, but I really want to understand this stuff. Could 
someone tell me how to get the *(compile-cmd osx) *call at the end of the 
code to produce the expected output:  */usr/bin/gcc *? I have commented 
out redundancy and moved a couple of lines for readability. Thanks in 
advance! 

J

 (ns joy.udp
   (:refer-clojure :exclude [get]))

 (defn beget [this proto]
   (assoc this ::prototype proto))

 (defn get [m k]
   (when m
 (if-let [[_ v] (find m k)]
   v
   (recur (::prototype m) k

 (def put assoc)

 ;;; compiler
 (defmulti compiler :os)
 (defmethod compiler ::unix [m] (get m :c-compiler))
 (defmethod compiler ::osx [m] (get m :llvm-compiler))

 (def clone (partial beget {}))

 

 (def unix {:os ::unix, :c-compiler cc, :home /home, :dev /dev})

 

 (def osx (- (clone unix)
  (put :os ::osx)
  (put :llvm-compiler clang)
  (put :home /Users)))

 ;;; home
 (defmulti home :os)
 (defmethod home ::unix [m] (get m :home))
 (defmethod home ::bsd [m] /home)

 

 ;; the error on the call to (home osx) is contingent upon toggling the 
 following lines. 

;(derive ::osx ::unix)
 ;(derive ::osx ::bsd)
 (prefer-method home ::unix ::bsd)
 ;(remove-method home ::bsd)   
 (derive (make-hierarchy) ::osx ::unix) 

 ;;; compile-cmd
 (defmulti compile-cmd (juxt :os compiler))

 (defmethod compile-cmd [::osx gcc] [m]
   (str /usr/bin/ (get m :c-compiler)))

 (defmethod compile-cmd :default [m]
   (str Unsure where to locate  (get m :c-compiler)))
 ;;

 (home osx) 

;= java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No method in multimethod 'home' for 
 dispatch value: :joy.udp/osx …

 ;; Should be: ;= /Users


(compile-cmd osx)

;= Unsure where to locate cc 

 ;; Should be: ;= /usr/bin/gcc

 

 (compile-cmd unix)

;= Unsure where to locate cc

;; this is the expected output 

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Re: Joy of Clojure example not working

2014-05-19 Thread Rob Day
It looks like it expects the keyword :osx, not the symbol osx. Could
that be the issue?

On 19 May 2014 16:39, gamma235 jesseluisd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi guys, I am working through the pre-release second edition of Joy of
 Clojure's section on multi-methods (section 9.2.~ : pg. 313), and am getting
 different outputs from what they have printed in the book. I could just skip
 over it, but I really want to understand this stuff. Could someone tell me
 how to get the (compile-cmd osx) call at the end of the code to produce the
 expected output:  /usr/bin/gcc ? I have commented out redundancy and moved
 a couple of lines for readability. Thanks in advance!

 J

 (ns joy.udp
   (:refer-clojure :exclude [get]))

 (defn beget [this proto]
   (assoc this ::prototype proto))

 (defn get [m k]
   (when m
 (if-let [[_ v] (find m k)]
   v
   (recur (::prototype m) k

 (def put assoc)

 ;;; compiler
 (defmulti compiler :os)
 (defmethod compiler ::unix [m] (get m :c-compiler))
 (defmethod compiler ::osx [m] (get m :llvm-compiler))

 (def clone (partial beget {}))



 (def unix {:os ::unix, :c-compiler cc, :home /home, :dev /dev})



 (def osx (- (clone unix)
  (put :os ::osx)
  (put :llvm-compiler clang)
  (put :home /Users)))

 ;;; home
 (defmulti home :os)
 (defmethod home ::unix [m] (get m :home))
 (defmethod home ::bsd [m] /home)



 ;; the error on the call to (home osx) is contingent upon toggling the
 following lines.

 ;(derive ::osx ::unix)
 ;(derive ::osx ::bsd)
 (prefer-method home ::unix ::bsd)
 ;(remove-method home ::bsd)
 (derive (make-hierarchy) ::osx ::unix)

 ;;; compile-cmd
 (defmulti compile-cmd (juxt :os compiler))

 (defmethod compile-cmd [::osx gcc] [m]
   (str /usr/bin/ (get m :c-compiler)))

 (defmethod compile-cmd :default [m]
   (str Unsure where to locate  (get m :c-compiler)))
 ;;

 (home osx)

 ;= java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No method in multimethod 'home'
 for dispatch value: :joy.udp/osx …

  ;; Should be: ;= /Users


 (compile-cmd osx)

 ;= Unsure where to locate cc

  ;; Should be: ;= /usr/bin/gcc



 (compile-cmd unix)

 ;= Unsure where to locate cc

 ;; this is the expected output

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Re: Joy of Clojure example not working

2014-05-19 Thread gamma235


 It looks like it expects the keyword :osx, not the symbol osx. Could 
 that be the issue? 


Thanks for the suggestion, but when I try that instead, I get this error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No method in multimethod 'compiler' for 
dispatch value: null


I kind of feel it might be a typo in the compile-cmd function, cause 
instead of a sybol it is listing a vector with a name-spaced symbol and a 
string: * [::osx gcc]*. I think this form might have to do something with 
juxt in  *(defmulti compile-cmd (juxt :os compiler)) *. 
But I admit that I don't really understand what is going on here, as the 
book doesn't go all that far in explaining juxt, using keys as functions 
and how it relates to the defmethod syntax taking a vector in the beginning.

J 

On Monday, May 19, 2014 10:44:12 PM UTC+9, Rob Day wrote:

 It looks like it expects the keyword :osx, not the symbol osx. Could 
 that be the issue? 

 On 19 May 2014 16:39, gamma235 jessel...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: 
  Hi guys, I am working through the pre-release second edition of Joy of 
  Clojure's section on multi-methods (section 9.2.~ : pg. 313), and am 
 getting 
  different outputs from what they have printed in the book. I could just 
 skip 
  over it, but I really want to understand this stuff. Could someone tell 
 me 
  how to get the (compile-cmd osx) call at the end of the code to produce 
 the 
  expected output:  /usr/bin/gcc ? I have commented out redundancy and 
 moved 
  a couple of lines for readability. Thanks in advance! 
  
  J 
  
  (ns joy.udp 
(:refer-clojure :exclude [get])) 
  
  (defn beget [this proto] 
(assoc this ::prototype proto)) 
  
  (defn get [m k] 
(when m 
  (if-let [[_ v] (find m k)] 
v 
(recur (::prototype m) k 
  
  (def put assoc) 
  
  ;;; compiler 
  (defmulti compiler :os) 
  (defmethod compiler ::unix [m] (get m :c-compiler)) 
  (defmethod compiler ::osx [m] (get m :llvm-compiler)) 
  
  (def clone (partial beget {})) 
  
  
  
  (def unix {:os ::unix, :c-compiler cc, :home /home, :dev /dev}) 
  
  
  
  (def osx (- (clone unix) 
   (put :os ::osx) 
   (put :llvm-compiler clang) 
   (put :home /Users))) 
  
  ;;; home 
  (defmulti home :os) 
  (defmethod home ::unix [m] (get m :home)) 
  (defmethod home ::bsd [m] /home) 
  
  
  
  ;; the error on the call to (home osx) is contingent upon toggling the 
  following lines. 
  
  ;(derive ::osx ::unix) 
  ;(derive ::osx ::bsd) 
  (prefer-method home ::unix ::bsd) 
  ;(remove-method home ::bsd) 
  (derive (make-hierarchy) ::osx ::unix) 
  
  ;;; compile-cmd 
  (defmulti compile-cmd (juxt :os compiler)) 
  
  (defmethod compile-cmd [::osx gcc] [m] 
(str /usr/bin/ (get m :c-compiler))) 
  
  (defmethod compile-cmd :default [m] 
(str Unsure where to locate  (get m :c-compiler))) 
  ;; 
  
  (home osx) 
  
  ;= java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No method in multimethod 'home' 
  for dispatch value: :joy.udp/osx … 
  
   ;; Should be: ;= /Users 
  
  
  (compile-cmd osx) 
  
  ;= Unsure where to locate cc 
  
   ;; Should be: ;= /usr/bin/gcc 
  
  
  
  (compile-cmd unix) 
  
  ;= Unsure where to locate cc 
  
  ;; this is the expected output 
  
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Re: in Clojure I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad, as I would in Haskell

2014-05-19 Thread Bob Hutchison

On May 16, 2014, at 8:49 PM, Julian juliangam...@gmail.com wrote:

 A quick shoutout to the Clojure Community - thanks for the way you've all 
 contributed to make my life (mentally) richer. 
 
 James Reeves (author of Compojure and many other wonderful libraries) made 
 this interesting comment on Hacker News:
  Clojure has libraries that implement monads, but these aren't often used 
  for threading state. I can't quite place my finger on why, but in Clojure I 
  rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad, as I would 
  in Haskell.
 Clojure tends to view mutability as a concurrency problem, and the tools it 
 provides to deal with mutability, such as atoms, refs, agents, channels and 
 so forth, are not mechanisms to avoid mutation, as to provide various 
 guarantees that restrict it in some fashion.
 It might be that in the cases where I'd use a state monad in Haskell, in 
 Clojure I might instead use an atom. They're in no way equivalent, but they 
 have some overlapping use-cases.
 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7751424
 My question is - have other Clojure/Haskell programmers had this experience? 
 (ie I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad). I'm 
 interested to hear if so, and why. 
 

I'm perhaps an atypical specimen (and I'm not what I'd call an expert Haskell 
programmer) but... I've written a fairly substantial prototype in Haskell 
(maybe 25k sloc, whatever that means) that made heavy use of the state monad. 
I've re-written the same application in Clojure and it never, even once, 
occurred to me to use the state monad. As James Reeves pointed out, Clojure 
programmers normally use atoms or refs to manage this kind of state. Looking at 
my two code bases you'd notice that the state monad would have been replaced in 
Clojure by a bunch of refs and atoms. If the state had been less complex and 
the application less concurrent I'd have used a single atom.

In Haskell you'd not be able to use this technique nearly as frequently, if at 
all, and certainly not in the same way. 

Please excuse the imprecision in the following... 

In Haskell, all IO is marked in the type signatures, and so if you want to 
perform any IO you have to carry the IO monad with you (IO appears in your type 
signature) into all 'sub' computations. The IO monad exists at the top level of 
your program, and so must be 'carried' all the way from the top level, you 
can't just suddenly start using IO deep within some computation. And this is 
exactly what you want in Haskell -- it's a *good* thing. In Clojure you can 
perform IO wherever you wish, and in Clojure this is exactly what you want, and 
is also a *good* thing. 

Haskell's STM transactions can be thought of as a form of IO action (like 
reading a file is an IO action) that modify refs (there are no atoms in 
Haskell, only refs). A transaction must be started in the IO monad and then, 
like IO, the STM monad is 'carried' in type signatures through all intervening 
computations that could take part in the transaction. The STM type/monad 
'blocks' the IO type/monad (you can't do other IO actions if you might take 
part in an STM transaction (IO action), this is an effect of, and enforced by, 
Haskell's type system (i.e. it's a compilation not a runtime error)). In 
Clojure the STM isn't part of the IO system, and you can start or take part in 
a transaction anywhere you want to, even nest dosyncs within a single 
transaction, and intermingle transactional code with IO (no matter how bad an 
idea that is).

That's a lot of talk to get to the point that using the STM has an 
insignificant impact on the structure of your Clojure programs, while in 
Haskell the impact is huge (of course, it's possible to argue that that's a 
*good* thing). In Haskell the state monad is pretty flexible, well supported by 
the language, and allows you to sidestep a lot of this impact (for one thing, 
you can introduce it anywhere). In Clojure the state monad would buy you 
nothing (in my opinion) while using it would have an impact on your programs 
structure. In Haskell there are forces pushing you to use the state monad, 
while in Clojure there are forces pushing you away from the state monad.

In my opinion.



I've 'simplified' my explanation, and obscured some of the actual 
issues/powers/advantages of Haskell's type system. For example, I hand-wavingly 
using the phrase 'you can/can't introduce...' -- it isn't quite like that, but 
that's the effect, so, I think, close enough for this discussion.

 

As an aside, a Clojure programmer might get a feel for what Haskell's state 
monad is like by considering the - and - macros. Within the - macro you 
start by defining your initial state then applying a sequence of operations to 
an updated state. You don't have to mention the state in your code again. The 
functions called in the - and - macros have either their first or last 
argument 'receiving' the state and returns the updated 

Re: Advice on data structure communication and awareness

2014-05-19 Thread Seth
Hi Mike! You might talk to Zack at CapClug. The session before the one you 
attended he walked through two small Clojure projects, with and without 
Prismatic schema.

On Saturday, May 17, 2014 2:22:51 PM UTC, Mike Fikes wrote:

 I've never used a dynamically-typed language and an issue I've encountered 
 with Clojure is a difficulty with readily seeing the data structures 
 being consumed or returned by functions I'm writing, especially when I come 
 back to them several days later and if those structures get to be somewhat 
 nested or otherwise complex.

 As a small concrete example, lets say that I currently have a function 
 that accepts data that looks like {:a A :b B} and, at some point I 
 change the internals of the function to instead operate on data that looks 
 like [[:a A] [:b B]].

 I could see the docstring communicating that the initial implementation of 
 the function accepts a map, and then perhaps it boils down to finding 
 suitable language to describe the structure in the revised implementation 
 (sequence of pairs, relation, or some other language suitable to the 
 abstraction).

 I suppose this is no different than the documentation aspect that 
 generics provided in Java when we went from raw types like List to 
 ListString, but, of course, generics can get unwieldy rather quickly with 
 things like ListMapString,SetInteger.

 Does there exist idiomatic language that developers employ in their 
 docstrings to quickly convey this kind of info? I see that the docstrings 
 for clojure.core are fairly readable, but they tend to operate on very 
 simple data structures.


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Re: [ANN] ring-auth middleware for protecting sessions

2014-05-19 Thread Brendan Younger
Agreed, let's take this off-list.  If anyone else wants in on the 
discussion, feel free to email myself, James, or Aaron.

Brendan

On Monday, May 19, 2014 9:07:24 AM UTC-4, abedra wrote:

  
 On 05/18/2014 09:25 AM, James Reeves wrote:
  
  I don't want to seem like I'm badgering you. You have a lot of sound 
 ideas. But I don't think we should be trying to work around insecure 
 designs; we should be making it easier for people to design things securely.
  
  In terms of *specific* things wrong that I've yet to mention: the 
 middleware you have won't work for all session stores; only session stores 
 that create a new session if a key is not found. Ideally session stores 
 should reject session IDs that don't exist, rather than construct new ones.

  - James
  

 After reading this thread I would like to make a couple of quick points. I 
 think that ring-auth is a step in the right direction and has the right end 
 goals in mind. To cut past the tension a bit I think that what James is 
 trying to say is let's try to make this less confusing and work within the 
 constraints of the current system. This really isn't a bad idea. In fact, 
 it is usually the way to succeed as an add-on to a library. I understand 
 all of the original points made by Brendan and agree with almost all of 
 them. That being said, I would encourage a little more work here to try and 
 blend just a bit more. I am happy to take this off list and start a more 
 productive discussion on how with a smaller group if there's interest.

 - Aaron

  
  

 On 18 May 2014 14:06, Brendan Younger brendan...@gmail.com 
 javascript:wrote:



 On Saturday, May 17, 2014 9:03:01 PM UTC-4, James Reeves wrote: 

  On 18 May 2014 00:09, Brendan Younger brendan...@gmail.com wrote:

 For anyone else following along at home, I'll just re-iterate the 
 benefits of using ring-auth versus trying to write your routes *just 
 right* to avoid the myriad security issues listed at OWASP. 

  - If you initiate a session with a user over HTTP and later on that 
 user logs in over HTTPS but you don't change the session id in the cookie, 
 then everyone at the coffee shop has access to the authenticated session. 
  Ring-auth protects you from this.
  

  This is true, but I don't think we should be aiming to protect people 
 from doing the wrong thing, so much as stop them from doing it in the first 
 place.

  You seem to be aiming this middleware at people concerned about 
 security, but not so concerned as to follow best practice. I'm a little 
 baffled by this use-case.
   

  On the contrary, I'm protecting the user from oversights or bugs in the 
 webapp.  Saying that there would be no security issues if only everyone 
 wrote perfect software is a tautology.
   


  
  - If you use a CSRF middleware, but at any time leak the session id 
 cookie over HTTP, then your CSRF protection is broken.  Ring-auth protects 
 you from this.
  

  CSRF protection doesn't matter if your session is compromised. CSRF is 
 a mechanism for sending a HTTP POST with the user's session ID. If you 
 already have the session ID, there's very few reasons why you'd bother with 
 CSRF.
   
- If you ever send your CSRF token over HTTP, then the entire coffee 
 shop can entice the user to Click here now! and send money to their 
 off-shore account.  Ring-auth helps you avoid sending the CSRF token in 
 the 
 clear.
  

  Hm? How? There doesn't appear to be anything in your code that looks 
 for the CSRF token embedded in the response body.
  

  Because the :csrf-token is only present in the :auth-session, you can 
 be sure that if your code has access to the :csrf-token, then it's 
 communicating over HTTPS with the user.  I could not use ring-anti-forgery 
 here because there is no provision to place the token in anything except 
 :session.


   - If you get a request over HTTP which should have gone over HTTPS 
 and respond with an error, but don't immediately delete the session, then 
 everyone at the coffee shop has seen the authenticated session id 
 (assuming 
 you forgot to set Secure).  Ring-auth protects you from this.
  

  Again, I don't understand the use-case for this. Setting the secure 
 flag on the session cookie is the clearly the better option. I'm having 
 trouble seeing how you'd present this in your project's README.
  

  - If a user closes their browser on a public computer but forgets to 
 sign off, the next user can go back to the site, and hopefully the browser 
 has cached the cookie giving them access to the first user's account. 
  Ring-auth will help prevent this as soon as the Cache-Control header is 
 set.
  

  A session idle-timeout isn't necessarily a bad idea, though again this 
 could be implemented as middleware on top of the existing session 
 middleware.

  I'm not sure what bearing the Cache-Control header has in this case.
  

  The Cache-Control header instructs proxies and the like to not cache 
 the Set-Cookie header.  See 

Re: Joy of Clojure example not working

2014-05-19 Thread Greg D
The second edition of Joy of Clojure, MEAP v10 shows the same error and 
progressive solution about half way down pdf-page 318 in section 9.2.4.

On Monday, May 19, 2014 6:39:26 AM UTC-7, gamma235 wrote:

 Hi guys, I am working through the pre-release second edition of Joy of 
 Clojure's section on multi-methods (section 9.2.~ : pg. 313), and am 
 getting different outputs from what they have printed in the book. I could 
 just skip over it, but I really want to understand this stuff. Could 
 someone tell me how to get the *(compile-cmd osx) *call at the end of the 
 code to produce the expected output:  */usr/bin/gcc *? I have commented 
 out redundancy and moved a couple of lines for readability. Thanks in 
 advance! 

 J

 (ns joy.udp
   (:refer-clojure :exclude [get]))

 (defn beget [this proto]
   (assoc this ::prototype proto))

 (defn get [m k]
   (when m
 (if-let [[_ v] (find m k)]
   v
   (recur (::prototype m) k

 (def put assoc)

 ;;; compiler
 (defmulti compiler :os)
 (defmethod compiler ::unix [m] (get m :c-compiler))
 (defmethod compiler ::osx [m] (get m :llvm-compiler))

 (def clone (partial beget {}))

  

 (def unix {:os ::unix, :c-compiler cc, :home /home, :dev /dev})

  

 (def osx (- (clone unix)
  (put :os ::osx)
  (put :llvm-compiler clang)
  (put :home /Users)))

 ;;; home
 (defmulti home :os)
 (defmethod home ::unix [m] (get m :home))
 (defmethod home ::bsd [m] /home)

  

 ;; the error on the call to (home osx) is contingent upon toggling the 
 following lines. 

 ;(derive ::osx ::unix)
 ;(derive ::osx ::bsd)
 (prefer-method home ::unix ::bsd)
 ;(remove-method home ::bsd)   
 (derive (make-hierarchy) ::osx ::unix) 

 ;;; compile-cmd
 (defmulti compile-cmd (juxt :os compiler))

 (defmethod compile-cmd [::osx gcc] [m]
   (str /usr/bin/ (get m :c-compiler)))

 (defmethod compile-cmd :default [m]
   (str Unsure where to locate  (get m :c-compiler)))
 ;;

 (home osx) 

 ;= java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No method in multimethod 'home' 
 for dispatch value: :joy.udp/osx …

  ;; Should be: ;= /Users


 (compile-cmd osx)

 ;= Unsure where to locate cc 

  ;; Should be: ;= /usr/bin/gcc

  

 (compile-cmd unix)

 ;= Unsure where to locate cc

 ;; this is the expected output 



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Best way to pass parameters?

2014-05-19 Thread Ivan Schuetz
Hi,

I'm building a webservice, have 2 layers: webservice and database.

Webservice layer receives e.g. a product, to add to the database:

{:id 1 :name phone :price 100}

Database layer has a method to insert the product, insert-product.

I could do 1):

(defn insert-product [params])

or 2):

(defn insert-product [id name price])

or 3):

(defn insert-product [{:keys [id name price]})


I tend to prefer 2) because it's safer than 1) and will allow me to add 
type check later, don't think this is possible with 3). It doesn't feel 
very idiomatic though and makes me feel like I might be thinking in 
Java...


I also want make possible to change the keys before inserting in the 
database, where 2) and 3) are better than 1).


Is 2) the best option? Is there any reason to use 3) instead? Or is there 
maybe a different, better way?



Thanks!

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Re: Best way to pass parameters?

2014-05-19 Thread Alex Walker
I'd prefer to combine #1 with a validation layer, similar to prismatic's 
schema but with a few tweaks.  Something* that filtered the param keys 
based on the allowed columns and ensured the values were sane.  Then, 
hopefully write generic sql helper fns to create the parameterized SET stmt 
string: id=?, name=?, price=? without needing to explicitly destructure 
them.

Lots of good discussion on keyword 
args: 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/clojure/keyword$20parameters%7Csort:date/clojure/yzLCZh-GiQ8/hypLf32IsigJ

*I'll publish that lib as soon as priorities allow it.

On Monday, May 19, 2014 12:07:15 PM UTC-5, Ivan Schuetz wrote:

 Hi,

 I'm building a webservice, have 2 layers: webservice and database.

 Webservice layer receives e.g. a product, to add to the database:

 {:id 1 :name phone :price 100}

 Database layer has a method to insert the product, insert-product.

 I could do 1):

 (defn insert-product [params])

 or 2):

 (defn insert-product [id name price])

 or 3):

 (defn insert-product [{:keys [id name price]})


 I tend to prefer 2) because it's safer than 1) and will allow me to add 
 type check later, don't think this is possible with 3). It doesn't feel 
 very idiomatic though and makes me feel like I might be thinking in 
 Java...


 I also want make possible to change the keys before inserting in the 
 database, where 2) and 3) are better than 1).


 Is 2) the best option? Is there any reason to use 3) instead? Or is there 
 maybe a different, better way?



 Thanks!


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passing commands to a running server

2014-05-19 Thread Brian Craft
I'm sure I've seen a thread on this, but can't find it now.

Is there a common pattern for sending management commands to a running 
server via cli? E.g. if foo starts my ring server, I need something like 
foo -x twiddle to send twiddle to the running process.

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Re: in Clojure I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad, as I would in Haskell

2014-05-19 Thread Ben Wolfson
I wouldn't say that I *often* find myself reaching for monads, or the state
monad in particular, but I certainly have found them useful on occasion
(and would have sometimes refrained from using them where I'd naturally
lean to doing so solely to avoid creating an dependency). For instance,
whenever there's a couple of functions that return either a success value
or an error message that have to be threaded together---an error monad to
do the plumbing makes this a lot nicer.

We've got a library at ReadyForZero for walking though json and xml
structures and doing transformations based on the values found there, or a
bit of configuration, using a combined reader-writer-state monad, and a
bunch of code that uses it. The state that's held is actually just a zipper
into the structure, the configuration at this point is only a keyword, and
the writer log holds reports of unexpected values. This could all be done
with other machinery---pass the zipper around directly (or hold it in an
atom), pass the log around directly (or hold it in an atom), use a dynamic
variable + binding for the configuration (since the reader monad amounts to
that anyway). However, I think the monadic code is easier to work with,
partly because nothing does need to be managed or passed around explicitly
(so it's easier to put together lots of little pieces), and partly because
it enables the use of generic tools. Also, traversing the the structures
has a fairly imperative feel---go here, go there, do this
transformation---with occasional variable binding, and the macro for
monadic computations the monad library we're using provides makes
expressing that fairly convenient. (Though I may be biased, since I wrote
it.)

It's true that there doesn't seem to be much need for introducing a monad
library and using the state monad if you *only* had the state monad, since
Clojure has other ways to deal with mutation (incidentally, I don't think
it's true to say that Haskell only has refs, not atoms; there are functions
to modify IORefs, which live outside the STM system, atomically).



On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Julian juliangam...@gmail.com wrote:

 A quick shoutout to the Clojure Community - thanks for the way you've all
 contributed to make my life (mentally) richer.

 James Reeves (author of Compojure and many other wonderful libraries) made
 this interesting comment on Hacker News:
  Clojure has libraries that implement monads, but these aren't often
 used for threading state. I can't quite place my finger on why, but in
 Clojure I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad,
 as I would in Haskell.

 Clojure tends to view mutability as a concurrency problem, and the tools
 it provides to deal with mutability, such as atoms, refs, agents, channels
 and so forth, are not mechanisms to avoid mutation, as to provide various
 guarantees that restrict it in some fashion.

 It might be that in the cases where I'd use a state monad in Haskell, in
 Clojure I might instead use an atom. They're in no way equivalent, but they
 have some overlapping use-cases.

 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7751424

 My question is - have other Clojure/Haskell programmers had this
 experience? (ie I rarely find myself reaching for something like the
 state monad). I'm interested to hear if so, and why.

 JG

 PS If this post is unhelpful, could be worded better - please let me know.
 I'm asking out of curiosity, not with intent to troll.

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Re: in Clojure I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad, as I would in Haskell

2014-05-19 Thread Ben Wolfson
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Bob Hutchison hutch-li...@recursive.cawrote:


 Haskell's STM transactions can be thought of as a form of IO action (like
 reading a file is an IO action) that modify refs (there are no atoms in
 Haskell, only refs). A transaction must be started in the IO monad and
 then, like IO, the STM monad is 'carried' in type signatures through all
 intervening computations that could take part in the transaction. The STM
 type/monad 'blocks' the IO type/monad (you can't do other IO actions if you
 might take part in an STM transaction (IO action), this is an effect of,
 and enforced by, Haskell's type system (i.e. it's a compilation not a
 runtime error)). In Clojure the STM isn't part of the IO system, and you
 can start or take part in a transaction anywhere you want to, even nest
 dosyncs within a single transaction, and intermingle transactional code
 with IO (no matter how bad an idea that is).


You can use regular IO in an STM action with unsafeUItoSTM: 
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.0/docs/GHC-Conc-Sync.html#v:unsafeIOToSTM.
IMO it's advantageous that you have to explicitly say that you want to do
IO inside a transaction, given that (in general) you probably shouldn't be
doing it.

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Re: Best way to pass parameters?

2014-05-19 Thread Greg D
Not an answer to your question, but you may want to check out:
Datomic: The fully transactional, cloud-ready, immutable 
database.http://www.datomic.com/

On Monday, May 19, 2014 10:07:15 AM UTC-7, Ivan Schuetz wrote:

 Hi,

 I'm building a webservice, have 2 layers: webservice and database.

 Webservice layer receives e.g. a product, to add to the database:

 {:id 1 :name phone :price 100}

 Database layer has a method to insert the product, insert-product.

 I could do 1):

 (defn insert-product [params])

 or 2):

 (defn insert-product [id name price])

 or 3):

 (defn insert-product [{:keys [id name price]})


 I tend to prefer 2) because it's safer than 1) and will allow me to add 
 type check later, don't think this is possible with 3). It doesn't feel 
 very idiomatic though and makes me feel like I might be thinking in 
 Java...


 I also want make possible to change the keys before inserting in the 
 database, where 2) and 3) are better than 1).


 Is 2) the best option? Is there any reason to use 3) instead? Or is there 
 maybe a different, better way?



 Thanks!


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ArithmeticException from unchecked-add

2014-05-19 Thread Greg D
I didn't expect this one.  See the illustrative sequence below.

Should I be reporting this as a bug, or re-read the docs?

; CIDER 0.5.0 (Clojure 1.6.0, nREPL 0.2.3)

user (require '[clojure.stacktrace :as st])

user (unchecked-add (Long/MAX_VALUE) (Long/MAX_VALUE) )
-2

user (unchecked-add ^long(Long/MAX_VALUE) ^long(Long/MAX_VALUE) )
-2

user (unchecked-add ^Long(Long/MAX_VALUE) ^Long(Long/MAX_VALUE) )
ArithmeticException integer overflow  clojure.lang.Numbers.throwIntOverflow 
(Numbers.java:1424)

user (st/e)
java.lang.ArithmeticException: integer overflow
 at clojure.lang.Numbers.throwIntOverflow (Numbers.java:1424)
clojure.lang.Numbers.add (Numbers.java:1723)
clojure.lang.Numbers$LongOps.add (Numbers.java:447)
clojure.lang.Numbers.add (Numbers.java:126)
clojure.lang.Numbers.unchecked_add (Numbers.java:1671)
user$eval2514.invoke (form-init3948440390155694364.clj:1)
clojure.lang.Compiler.eval (Compiler.java:6703)
clojure.lang.Compiler.eval (Compiler.java:)
nil

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Re: Re-evaluating recuring go blocks

2014-05-19 Thread Dylan Butman
Great!

I've used alts! before with control channels which is definitely useful as 
well. 

Timothy, can you elaborate a little? I'm still a little unclear when 
channels are garbage collected. It it an issue to leave channels open after 
you've stopped using them? I always feel a little strange constantly 
creating new channels to replace callbacks, blocking on their output, and 
then wondering whether or not I need to worry about closing them. If a 
channel falls out of scope is it garbage collected? How do go blocks affect 
scoping? 


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Re: in Clojure I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad, as I would in Haskell

2014-05-19 Thread Bob Hutchison

On May 19, 2014, at 1:44 PM, Ben Wolfson wolf...@gmail.com wrote:

 I wouldn't say that I *often* find myself reaching for monads, or the state 
 monad in particular, but I certainly have found them useful on occasion (and 
 would have sometimes refrained from using them where I'd naturally lean to 
 doing so solely to avoid creating an dependency). For instance, whenever 
 there's a couple of functions that return either a success value or an error 
 message that have to be threaded together---an error monad to do the plumbing 
 makes this a lot nicer.

I badly miss the Maybe and Either monads, but would want the syntactic support 
Haskell provides (which I can't see will ever be available in Clojure)

 
 We've got a library at ReadyForZero for walking though json and xml 
 structures and doing transformations based on the values found there, or a 
 bit of configuration, using a combined reader-writer-state monad, and a bunch 
 of code that uses it. The state that's held is actually just a zipper into 
 the structure, the configuration at this point is only a keyword, and the 
 writer log holds reports of unexpected values. This could all be done with 
 other machinery---pass the zipper around directly (or hold it in an atom), 
 pass the log around directly (or hold it in an atom), use a dynamic variable 
 + binding for the configuration (since the reader monad amounts to that 
 anyway). However, I think the monadic code is easier to work with, partly 
 because nothing does need to be managed or passed around explicitly (so it's 
 easier to put together lots of little pieces), and partly because it enables 
 the use of generic tools. Also, traversing the the structures has a fairly 
 imperative feel---go here, go there, do this transformation---with occasional 
 variable binding, and the macro for monadic computations the monad library 
 we're using provides makes expressing that fairly convenient. (Though I may 
 be biased, since I wrote it.)
 
 It's true that there doesn't seem to be much need for introducing a monad 
 library and using the state monad if you *only* had the state monad, since 
 Clojure has other ways to deal with mutation (incidentally, I don't think 
 it's true to say that Haskell only has refs, not atoms; there are functions 
 to modify IORefs, which live outside the STM system, atomically).

Which is why I didn't call them atoms :-) There's also a ref in the ST monad 
(which is a bells-and-whistles state monad that has fallen into a bit of disuse 
since the IO monad appeared)

 
 
 
 On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Julian juliangam...@gmail.com wrote:
 A quick shoutout to the Clojure Community - thanks for the way you've all 
 contributed to make my life (mentally) richer. 
 
 James Reeves (author of Compojure and many other wonderful libraries) made 
 this interesting comment on Hacker News:
  Clojure has libraries that implement monads, but these aren't often used 
  for threading state. I can't quite place my finger on why, but in Clojure I 
  rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad, as I would 
  in Haskell.
 Clojure tends to view mutability as a concurrency problem, and the tools it 
 provides to deal with mutability, such as atoms, refs, agents, channels and 
 so forth, are not mechanisms to avoid mutation, as to provide various 
 guarantees that restrict it in some fashion.
 It might be that in the cases where I'd use a state monad in Haskell, in 
 Clojure I might instead use an atom. They're in no way equivalent, but they 
 have some overlapping use-cases.
 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7751424
 My question is - have other Clojure/Haskell programmers had this experience? 
 (ie I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad). I'm 
 interested to hear if so, and why. 
 JG
 PS If this post is unhelpful, could be worded better - please let me know. 
 I'm asking out of curiosity, not with intent to troll. 
 
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Re: Re-evaluating recuring go blocks

2014-05-19 Thread Timothy Baldridge
Channels are not tied to anything, so once your code stops referencing
them, they are garbage collected.

Go blocks are actually nothing more than pretty callbacks that are attached
to channels. So if a go is waiting for a put or a take from a channel, it
will be GC'd with the channel. I could go into the details here, but I'll
say it this way: if a channel could ever have a value again, it will not be
GC'd if there's no possible way for the channel to receive a value, then it
will be GC'd at some point.

For example:

(dotimes [x 100]
  (let [c (chan)]
   (dotimes [x 10]
 (go (! c)

Here, all these gos will be GC'd they are parked on the channel, but the
channel can never give them a value, so once the channel is GC'd all the
gos will as well.

You can (ab)use this by simply re-defining your channels when you want to
throw away new state. The new channel will replace the old, and that
channel will be GC'd along with all the GOs that are waiting on it.

Now, this is all a bit different if you use the (thread) macro. In that
case threads are not GC'd (since the OS is holding on to them) so you'll
need to shut those down on your own.

Hopefully this  helps.

Timothy


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Dylan Butman dbut...@gmail.com wrote:

 Great!

 I've used alts! before with control channels which is definitely useful as
 well.

 Timothy, can you elaborate a little? I'm still a little unclear when
 channels are garbage collected. It it an issue to leave channels open after
 you've stopped using them? I always feel a little strange constantly
 creating new channels to replace callbacks, blocking on their output, and
 then wondering whether or not I need to worry about closing them. If a
 channel falls out of scope is it garbage collected? How do go blocks affect
 scoping?


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Re: in Clojure I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad, as I would in Haskell

2014-05-19 Thread Bob Hutchison

On May 19, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Ben Wolfson wolf...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Bob Hutchison hutch-li...@recursive.ca 
 wrote:
 
 Haskell's STM transactions can be thought of as a form of IO action (like 
 reading a file is an IO action) that modify refs (there are no atoms in 
 Haskell, only refs). A transaction must be started in the IO monad and then, 
 like IO, the STM monad is 'carried' in type signatures through all 
 intervening computations that could take part in the transaction. The STM 
 type/monad 'blocks' the IO type/monad (you can't do other IO actions if you 
 might take part in an STM transaction (IO action), this is an effect of, and 
 enforced by, Haskell's type system (i.e. it's a compilation not a runtime 
 error)). In Clojure the STM isn't part of the IO system, and you can start or 
 take part in a transaction anywhere you want to, even nest dosyncs within a 
 single transaction, and intermingle transactional code with IO (no matter how 
 bad an idea that is).
 
 You can use regular IO in an STM action with unsafeUItoSTM: 
 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.0/docs/GHC-Conc-Sync.html#v:unsafeIOToSTM.
  IMO it's advantageous that you have to explicitly say that you want to do IO 
 inside a transaction, given that (in general) you probably shouldn't be doing 
 it.

You're right. I didn't want to bring that up though. It's well named. I used 
the various unsafe* functions regularly while debugging, and even then only for 
writing to the console. I would be *very* *very* reluctant to use any of them 
in production, and certainly not intentionally design something that required 
their use. So, for the purposes of this discussion, I figured I'd just pretend 
they didn't exist.

Cheers,
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Re: in Clojure I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad, as I would in Haskell

2014-05-19 Thread Ben Wolfson
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Bob Hutchison hutch-li...@recursive.cawrote:


 On May 19, 2014, at 1:44 PM, Ben Wolfson wolf...@gmail.com wrote:

 I wouldn't say that I *often* find myself reaching for monads, or the
 state monad in particular, but I certainly have found them useful on
 occasion (and would have sometimes refrained from using them where I'd
 naturally lean to doing so solely to avoid creating an dependency). For
 instance, whenever there's a couple of functions that return either a
 success value or an error message that have to be threaded together---an
 error monad to do the plumbing makes this a lot nicer.


 I badly miss the Maybe and Either monads, but would want the syntactic
 support Haskell provides (which I can't see will ever be available in
 Clojure)


I've been pretty happy with:
https://github.com/bwo/monads/blob/master/src/monads/core.clj#L65



 We've got a library at ReadyForZero for walking though json and xml
 structures and doing transformations based on the values found there, or a
 bit of configuration, using a combined reader-writer-state monad, and a
 bunch of code that uses it. The state that's held is actually just a zipper
 into the structure, the configuration at this point is only a keyword, and
 the writer log holds reports of unexpected values. This could all be done
 with other machinery---pass the zipper around directly (or hold it in an
 atom), pass the log around directly (or hold it in an atom), use a dynamic
 variable + binding for the configuration (since the reader monad amounts to
 that anyway). However, I think the monadic code is easier to work with,
 partly because nothing does need to be managed or passed around explicitly
 (so it's easier to put together lots of little pieces), and partly because
 it enables the use of generic tools. Also, traversing the the structures
 has a fairly imperative feel---go here, go there, do this
 transformation---with occasional variable binding, and the macro for
 monadic computations the monad library we're using provides makes
 expressing that fairly convenient. (Though I may be biased, since I wrote
 it.)

 It's true that there doesn't seem to be much need for introducing a monad
 library and using the state monad if you *only* had the state monad, since
 Clojure has other ways to deal with mutation (incidentally, I don't think
 it's true to say that Haskell only has refs, not atoms; there are functions
 to modify IORefs, which live outside the STM system, atomically).


 Which is why I didn't call them atoms :-) There's also a ref in the ST
 monad (which is a bells-and-whistles state monad that has fallen into a bit
 of disuse since the IO monad appeared)


Well, my point was that IORefs seem to provide in Haskell what atoms
provide in Clojure. The refs in ST don't do the the same work because the
existential type parameter keeps them from being shared across distinct
runST invocations.


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Re: Re-evaluating recuring go blocks

2014-05-19 Thread Dylan Butman
Yea that's very helpful. When you say the channel can never give them a 
value, is that because the channel is no longer in scope?

So 

(def c (chan))
(dotimes [x 10]
  (go (! c)))

would not be GC'd until the entire namespace is reevaluated? Would redefining c 
here cause the 10 GOs to be GC'd? I feel like I've done this before and ended 
up with duplicated actions...

On May 19, 2014, at 2:36 PM, Timothy Baldridge wrote:

 Channels are not tied to anything, so once your code stops referencing them, 
 they are garbage collected. 
 
 Go blocks are actually nothing more than pretty callbacks that are attached 
 to channels. So if a go is waiting for a put or a take from a channel, it 
 will be GC'd with the channel. I could go into the details here, but I'll say 
 it this way: if a channel could ever have a value again, it will not be GC'd 
 if there's no possible way for the channel to receive a value, then it will 
 be GC'd at some point. 
 
 For example:
 
 (dotimes [x 100]
   (let [c (chan)]
(dotimes [x 10]
  (go (! c)
 
 Here, all these gos will be GC'd they are parked on the channel, but the 
 channel can never give them a value, so once the channel is GC'd all the gos 
 will as well. 
 
 You can (ab)use this by simply re-defining your channels when you want to 
 throw away new state. The new channel will replace the old, and that channel 
 will be GC'd along with all the GOs that are waiting on it. 
 
 Now, this is all a bit different if you use the (thread) macro. In that case 
 threads are not GC'd (since the OS is holding on to them) so you'll need to 
 shut those down on your own. 
 
 Hopefully this  helps. 
 
 Timothy
 
 
 On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Dylan Butman dbut...@gmail.com wrote:
 Great!
 
 I've used alts! before with control channels which is definitely useful as 
 well. 
 
 Timothy, can you elaborate a little? I'm still a little unclear when channels 
 are garbage collected. It it an issue to leave channels open after you've 
 stopped using them? I always feel a little strange constantly creating new 
 channels to replace callbacks, blocking on their output, and then wondering 
 whether or not I need to worry about closing them. If a channel falls out of 
 scope is it garbage collected? How do go blocks affect scoping? 
 
 
 
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Re: ArithmeticException from unchecked-add

2014-05-19 Thread Stephen Gilardi

On May 19, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Greg D gregoire.da...@gmail.com wrote:

 user (unchecked-add ^Long(Long/MAX_VALUE) ^Long(Long/MAX_VALUE) )
 ArithmeticException integer overflow  clojure.lang.Numbers.throwIntOverflow 
 (Numbers.java:1424)

The docs for unchecked-add 
(http://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/unchecked-add)
 only cover the case of both arguments being primitive longs. Calling with 
other argument types invokes behavior that is not currently documented. That 
may be intentional to allow the behavior to change in the future, or it may be 
an oversight in which case the docs could be improved to document the intended 
behavior for more argument types.

Regarding the current implementation, there is code to handle the case of 
calling unchecked-add with two Long arguments. In that case, unchecked_add 
behaves the same way as + does and throws the overflow exception.

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Re: in Clojure I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad, as I would in Haskell

2014-05-19 Thread Bob Hutchison

On May 19, 2014, at 2:45 PM, Ben Wolfson wolf...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Bob Hutchison hutch-li...@recursive.ca 
 wrote:
 
 I badly miss the Maybe and Either monads, but would want the syntactic 
 support Haskell provides (which I can't see will ever be available in Clojure)
 
 I've been pretty happy with: 
 https://github.com/bwo/monads/blob/master/src/monads/core.clj#L65
 

Hmm. I'm going to have to take another look at that. Thanks!

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Unable to find final method in superclass

2014-05-19 Thread Pradeep Gollakota


Hi All,

I’m trying to work with NIO in Java 7, and I’m not able to access methods 
that are declared in the super class.

(.getPath (java.nio.file.FileSystems/getDefault) /)

The above code throws the following Exception:

Exception in thread main java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching 
method found: getPath for class sun.nio.fs.MacOSXFileSystem, 
compiling:(/private/var/folders/7t/hd4k0hbn4zx6hvdlhhglncwwnr07sd/T/form-init118501231724308669.clj:1:141)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.load(Compiler.java:7142)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.loadFile(Compiler.java:7086)
at clojure.main$load_script.invoke(main.clj:274)
at clojure.main$init_opt.invoke(main.clj:279)
at clojure.main$initialize.invoke(main.clj:307)
at clojure.main$null_opt.invoke(main.clj:342)
at clojure.main$main.doInvoke(main.clj:420)
at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:421)
at clojure.lang.Var.invoke(Var.java:383)
at clojure.lang.AFn.applyToHelper(AFn.java:156)
at clojure.lang.Var.applyTo(Var.java:700)
at clojure.main.main(main.java:37)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching method found: 
getPath for class sun.nio.fs.MacOSXFileSystem
at clojure.lang.Reflector.invokeMatchingMethod(Reflector.java:53)
at clojure.lang.Reflector.invokeInstanceMethod(Reflector.java:28)
at filecollector.core$_main.doInvoke(core.clj:33)
at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:397)
at clojure.lang.Var.invoke(Var.java:375)
at user$eval5$fn__7.invoke(form-init118501231724308669.clj:1)
at user$eval5.invoke(form-init118501231724308669.clj:1)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.eval(Compiler.java:6703)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.eval(Compiler.java:6693)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.load(Compiler.java:7130)
... 11 more

This seems to be related to the following JIRA 
CLJ-1243http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1243

Any thoughts on how to proceed?

Thanks,
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Re: Joy of Clojure example not working

2014-05-19 Thread gamma235
I actually just wanna know why I need to use derive so many times. Isn't there 
a core function/macro where I can derive and set hierarchy all at once? I'm 
just looking for a more efficient way. My bad for not stating that more clearly 
in the original post. 

The real problem though is the last two calls to compile-cmd. I've been messing 
with it for a couple of days so any help there would be well appreciated.

Thanks

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Re: Joy of Clojure example not working

2014-05-19 Thread gamma235
I actually just wanna know why I need to use derive so many times. Isn't there 
a core function/macro where I can derive and set hierarchy all at once? I'm 
just looking for a more efficient way. My bad for not stating that more clearly 
in the original post. 

The real problem though is the last two calls to compile-cmd. I've been messing 
with it for a couple of days so any help there would be well appreciated.

Thanks

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Re: Unable to find final method in superclass

2014-05-19 Thread Paul Richardson
Hi Pradeep,

The exception you are seeing happens when clojure can't find the correct 
method; this is often due to an arity mismatch, as is the case here.

.getPath expects two arguments: a String followed by a String array. Java 
makes the variadic parameter seem optional, but in clojure it must 
explicitly be there.

passing nil will get you an npe, but
(.getPath (java.nio.file.FileSystems/getDefault) / (make-array String 0))
should work. You could make yourself a convenience function if you're going 
to call it a lot.

Hope that helps you out

Paul

On Monday, May 19, 2014 4:58:53 PM UTC-6, Pradeep Gollakota wrote:

 Hi All,

 I’m trying to work with NIO in Java 7, and I’m not able to access methods 
 that are declared in the super class.

 (.getPath (java.nio.file.FileSystems/getDefault) /)

 The above code throws the following Exception:

 Exception in thread main java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching 
 method found: getPath for class sun.nio.fs.MacOSXFileSystem, 
 compiling:(/private/var/folders/7t/hd4k0hbn4zx6hvdlhhglncwwnr07sd/T/form-init118501231724308669.clj:1:141)
 at clojure.lang.Compiler.load(Compiler.java:7142)
 at clojure.lang.Compiler.loadFile(Compiler.java:7086)
 at clojure.main$load_script.invoke(main.clj:274)
 at clojure.main$init_opt.invoke(main.clj:279)
 at clojure.main$initialize.invoke(main.clj:307)
 at clojure.main$null_opt.invoke(main.clj:342)
 at clojure.main$main.doInvoke(main.clj:420)
 at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:421)
 at clojure.lang.Var.invoke(Var.java:383)
 at clojure.lang.AFn.applyToHelper(AFn.java:156)
 at clojure.lang.Var.applyTo(Var.java:700)
 at clojure.main.main(main.java:37)
 Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching method found: 
 getPath for class sun.nio.fs.MacOSXFileSystem
 at clojure.lang.Reflector.invokeMatchingMethod(Reflector.java:53)
 at clojure.lang.Reflector.invokeInstanceMethod(Reflector.java:28)
 at filecollector.core$_main.doInvoke(core.clj:33)
 at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:397)
 at clojure.lang.Var.invoke(Var.java:375)
 at user$eval5$fn__7.invoke(form-init118501231724308669.clj:1)
 at user$eval5.invoke(form-init118501231724308669.clj:1)
 at clojure.lang.Compiler.eval(Compiler.java:6703)
 at clojure.lang.Compiler.eval(Compiler.java:6693)
 at clojure.lang.Compiler.load(Compiler.java:7130)
 ... 11 more

 This seems to be related to the following JIRA 
 CLJ-1243http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1243

 Any thoughts on how to proceed?

 Thanks,
 Pradeep
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Error using core.async version of into

2014-05-19 Thread Craig

Hi,

With the following project file:

(defproject p1 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT
  :description Project One
  :url http://acme.com;
  :license {:name Eclipse Public License :url 
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html}
  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure 1.6.0]
 [org.clojure/core.async 0.1.303.0-886421-alpha]]
  :main p1.core)

..and starting an associated repl, I see (into) failing thus:

$ lein repl
WARNING: reduce already refers to: #'clojure.core/reduce in namespace: 
p1.core, being replaced by: #'clojure.core.async/reduce
WARNING: take already refers to: #'clojure.core/take in namespace: p1.core, 
being replaced by: #'clojure.core.async/take
WARNING: map already refers to: #'clojure.core/map in namespace: p1.core, 
being replaced by: #'clojure.core.async/map
WARNING: into already refers to: #'clojure.core/into in namespace: p1.core, 
being replaced by: #'clojure.core.async/into
WARNING: partition already refers to: #'clojure.core/partition in 
namespace: p1.core, being replaced by: #'clojure.core.async/partition
WARNING: merge already refers to: #'clojure.core/merge in namespace: 
p1.core, being replaced by: #'clojure.core.async/merge
WARNING: partition-by already refers to: #'clojure.core/partition-by in 
namespace: p1.core, being replaced by: #'clojure.core.async/partition-by
nREPL server started on port 60959 on host 127.0.0.1
REPL-y 0.2.1
Clojure 1.6.0
Docs: (doc function-name-here)
  (find-doc part-of-name-here)
  Source: (source function-name-here)
 Javadoc: (javadoc java-object-or-class-here)
Exit: Control+D or (exit) or (quit)

p1.core= (into [:a] (list :b :c)) 
#ManyToManyChannel 
clojure.core.async.impl.channels.ManyToManyChannel@4cc28666
#IllegalArgumentException java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No 
implementation of method: :take! of protocol: 
#'clojure.core.async.impl.protocols/ReadPort found for class: 
clojure.lang.PersistentList
p1.core= 

I can work-around using: (apply vector :q (list :a :b)), but why is the 
(into) failing? Thanks.

Craig

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