Re: clojure.contrib.test-is: first major rewrite

2008-12-08 Thread Dan Larkin
Hey this looks great! On Dec 7, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Stuart Sierra wrote: > > Hi folks, ... > > 2. "each=" and "all-true" are gone, replaced by the new macro "are", > which works with any predicate: >(are = > 2 (+ 1 1) > 4 (+ 2 2)) > Just one bone to pick, though. The "are" macro d

Re: License of/permission for Clojure's logo

2008-12-08 Thread samppi
I've uploaded the logo's glyph and added it to Clojure's article. However, I'm wondering, Mr. Hickey—have you considered releasing the language's logo under a free license? The language itself is under the Common Public License; releasing its logo under another free license is a logical step. If

Re: Calling superclass methods from implemented methods

2008-12-08 Thread Matt Revelle
The attached patch adds :super-methods option to generate-class as a map, {local-name [name [param-types] return-type], ...}. The mechanics work as Rich suggested in an earlier message, a method is created that has the same type signature as the exposed method - it loads the arguments, inv

Re: clojure.contrib.test-is: first major rewrite

2008-12-08 Thread samppi
RSpec's contexts are for grouping tests—or defining specifications—for a Ruby class: describe Account do it "should be able to withdraw money and reflect it in its balance" do ... end end ...creates a test basically called "Account should be able to withdraw money and reflect it in its b

Re: clojure.contrib.test-is: first major rewrite

2008-12-08 Thread .Bill Smith
I agree that the ability to nest tests is important, but I'm not sure encoding the nesting information in the test name is necessarily the right way to go. Perhaps an intermediate step would be to define a "test container" that, when executed, runs all the tests it contains. With that foundation,

Re: Running out of memory when using filter?

2008-12-08 Thread Rich Hickey
On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:56 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi wrote: > I think I finally see the problem. The "rest expression" in filter's > call to lazy-cons has a reference to "coll" in it. That's all it > takes for coll to be retained during the entire calculation of the > rest. > > (defn filter > "

clojure-contrib documentation

2008-12-08 Thread Mark Volkmann
Is there a primary website that provides documentation and examples of using the various libraries in clojure-contrib? My googling efforts have come up empty so far. I'm particularly interested in learning more about test-is at the moment. -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc. --~--~--

Re: clojure.contrib.test-is: first major rewrite

2008-12-08 Thread J. McConnell
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Stuart Sierra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 8, 3:53 pm, "J. McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Great! Will the planned thrown-with-msg? support regex matching? I >> used something like that in clojure.contrib.test-clojure.evaluation, >> which was prett

Re: clojure.contrib.test-is: first major rewrite

2008-12-08 Thread Stuart Sierra
On Dec 8, 3:53 pm, "J. McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great! Will the planned thrown-with-msg? support regex matching? I > used something like that in clojure.contrib.test-clojure.evaluation, > which was pretty handy. Yes, that's where I got the idea. -Stuart Sierra --~--~-~--~-

Re: clojure.contrib.test-is: first major rewrite

2008-12-08 Thread Stuart Sierra
On Dec 8, 5:06 pm, "Frantisek Sodomka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wonder - how do you define "all-true" using "are"? Since "are"   > always makes pairs for predicate, it might not be possible. Hi Frantisek, The short answer is, you don't. :) Just use "is" for now. I'll consider making

Re: Running out of memory when using filter?

2008-12-08 Thread Mark Engelberg
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I finally see the problem. The "rest expression" in filter's call to > lazy-cons has a reference to "coll" in it. That's all it takes for coll to > be retained during the entire calculation of the rest. > Well

Re: Running out of memory when using filter?

2008-12-08 Thread Mark Engelberg
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I finally see the problem. The "rest expression" in filter's call to > lazy-cons has a reference to "coll" in it. That's all it takes for coll to > be retained during the entire calculation of the rest. > Well

Re: Running out of memory when using filter?

2008-12-08 Thread Stephen C. Gilardi
I think I finally see the problem. The "rest expression" in filter's call to lazy-cons has a reference to "coll" in it. That's all it takes for coll to be retained during the entire calculation of the rest. (defn filter "Returns a lazy seq of the items in coll for which (pred item) return

Re: A newbie question on Agents and ants

2008-12-08 Thread MattyDub
This talk was very informative, and I was glad for it. There were several informative things in the talk that I haven't seen documented anywhere (like the explanation of the thread pools backing (send ...) vs (send-off ...)). But is there anyplace I could read this information? Is there anyplac

Re: Running out of memory when using filter?

2008-12-08 Thread Stephen C. Gilardi
On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi wrote: This looked very promising to me. For one thing, I remembered that the root of the big chain of LazyCons objects in memory (as displayed by the YourKit profiler) was "f". Now it's "r" and is listed as a "stack local". --Steve smime.

Re: Math as multimethods

2008-12-08 Thread ppierre
On 8 déc, 23:13, "Michael Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then I of course write the implementations for various different > types. Then, because the multi-method names don't look nice, I wrote a > macro which transformed the regular operators into calls on the > multi-methods, i.e.: > >  (macr

Re: Running out of memory when using filter?

2008-12-08 Thread Stephen C. Gilardi
On Dec 8, 2008, at 7:45 PM, Mark Engelberg wrote: I have an idea to try, but I'm not set up to build the java sources on my computer, so maybe someone else can run with it: This looked very promising to me. For one thing, I remembered that the root of the big chain of LazyCons objects in me

Re: Running out of memory when using filter?

2008-12-08 Thread MikeM
I share your concern about the LazyCons problem - hopefully Rich and others are looking into this. I have continued to experiment to see if I can gain some understanding that might help with a solution. The following is something I thought of today, and I'd like to see if others get the same res

Re: Running out of memory when using filter?

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Mooser
Is there a place we should file an official bug, so that Rich and the rest of the clojure people are aware of it? I imagine that they may have read this thread, but I'm not sure if there is an "official" process to make sure these things get addressed. As I said in a previous reply, it's not clea

Re: Working combination of .emacs, Aquamacs, swank-clojure, clojure-mode?

2008-12-08 Thread Bill Clementson
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:29 PM, mosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thank you for helping the beginners like me with the setup of emacs, > slime and clojure. > I tried first the official method described elsewhere on this forum - > ubuntu linux instructions. > Unsuccessful. > Following your instruct

Re: Patch to add doc string support to defmulti [Was: (doc)strings after param in defn]

2008-12-08 Thread J. McConnell
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Chouser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:40 PM, J. McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is a breaking change for some (granted rather unsual) cases: > > (defmulti foo {:a 1 :b 2}) > (defmethod foo 1 [_] "got a1") > (defmethod foo 2 [

Re: Running out of memory when using filter?

2008-12-08 Thread Mark Engelberg
Has anyone made progress on this bug? The simplest form of the bug was this: (defn splode [n] (doseq [i (filter #(= % 20) (map inc (range n)))])) This blows the heap, but it shouldn't. I find this deeply troubling, because if this doesn't work, it undermines my faith in the implementation of

Re: Is it possible to tell programatically if I'm in a transactional context?

2008-12-08 Thread Dave Griffith
The basic use case is as a guard for I/O, to prevent them from from filling the disk/spamming the network accidentally in case of transaction live-lock. Probably a bit more paranoia than is idiomatic in the dynamically-typed world, but there are domains where that's necessary. The workaround is

Re: Working combination of .emacs, Aquamacs, swank-clojure, clojure-mode?

2008-12-08 Thread mosi
Hi Bill, thank you for helping the beginners like me with the setup of emacs, slime and clojure. I tried first the official method described elsewhere on this forum - ubuntu linux instructions. Unsuccessful. Following your instructions, the same issue, my linux emacs22 gets to this point: (add-cl

Re: List comprehension: :when AND :while for the same binding?

2008-12-08 Thread Chouser
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 8, 10:08 am, Chouser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> doseq currently supports both. If both appear on the same binding, >> the :while is always test first regardless of the order in which they >> appear in the dose

Re: Java vararg functions called from Clojure

2008-12-08 Thread Stephen C. Gilardi
On Dec 8, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong or insufficiently aware of the relevant issues, but is it not the case that such a helper function has an easier job for Format since it wants an array of Object. In other contexts, you have to know what the type of t

Re: Lazy sequences without caching?

2008-12-08 Thread harrison clarke
you're keeping the head of the sequence, and thus all the elements between the head and nth. it's because you're using def, basically. if you make a function to return the sequence, and pass the result directly to nth, without let-binding it or anything, it should work. --~--~-~--~~-

Re: java built in HTTP server, proxy and HttpHandler interface

2008-12-08 Thread Kyle R. Burton
> I have gotten your example to work with a bit of reading and > modification (and thank you, I was after an example http server, this > got me going): A bit more hacking and it's possible to add/replace handlers after the server has been started: (import '(java.io IOException OutputStream) '

Re: Is it possible to tell programatically if I'm in a transactional context?

2008-12-08 Thread Stuart Halloway
Hi Dave, It looks like LockingTransaction.getRunning would need to be made public. What do you plan to do with it? As a workaround: (defn in-tx? [] (try (ensure (ref true)) (catch IllegalStateException e false))) Stuart > > I gave a small talk on Clojure this afternoon to my team. It w

Re: java built in HTTP server, proxy and HttpHandler interface

2008-12-08 Thread Kyle R. Burton
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:18 PM, prhlava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, it turns out that the following works, but it only prints the > "exchange" to stdout, > if the code is cut and pasted to the REPL but _not_ if run as .clj > script)... I have gotten your example to work with a bit of r

Is it possible to tell programatically if I'm in a transactional context?

2008-12-08 Thread Dave Griffith
I gave a small talk on Clojure this afternoon to my team. It went well, and got the expected oohs and ahhs with respect to the potential of software transactional memory. One question asked, though, was about I/O in software transactions. It was clear to everyone why I/O needed to be prohibitte

Re: Patch to add doc string support to defmulti [Was: (doc)strings after param in defn]

2008-12-08 Thread Chouser
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:40 PM, J. McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Attached is a patch that adds doc-string and metadata support to > defmulti. It does not generate arglists metadata automatically like > defn does since the arglists are not supplied in the defmulti form as > they are in d

Re: java built in HTTP server, proxy and HttpHandler interface

2008-12-08 Thread prhlava
Well, it turns out that the following works, but it only prints the "exchange" to stdout, if the code is cut and pasted to the REPL but _not_ if run as .clj script)... (import '(java.io IOException) '(java.io OutputStream) '(java.util Iterator) '(java.util List) '(java.util Set) '(com.sun.

Re: Math as multimethods

2008-12-08 Thread Michael Reid
I've been toying with something similar. The approach I took was to define multi-methods for the various operators: (defmulti add class) (defmulti sub class) (defmulti mul class) (defmulti div class) ... Then I of course write the implementations for various different types. Then, because the m

Re: clojure.contrib.test-is: first major rewrite

2008-12-08 Thread Frantisek Sodomka
> 2. "each=" and "all-true" are gone, replaced by the new macro "are", > which works with any predicate: > (are = > 2 (+ 1 1) > 4 (+ 2 2)) > > -Stuart Sierra Hello and thanks for additions! Happy to see additions and work done on tests :-) I just wonder - how do you define "all-

Lazy sequences without caching?

2008-12-08 Thread Stephan Mühlstrasser
Hi, for one of the problems from Project Euler I implemented a "triangle numbers" lazy sequence after the blueprint of the fibonacci numbers sequence in clojure.contrib.lazy-seqs:. When taking large numbers of items from this equence, I get an out-of-memory exception: user=> (def triangle-numbe

Re: clojure.contrib.test-is: first major rewrite

2008-12-08 Thread J. McConnell
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Stuart Sierra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. More "is" predicates, including regular expressions and "thrown- > with-msg?" Great! Will the planned thrown-with-msg? support regex matching? I used something like that in clojure.contrib.test-clojure.evaluation, wh

Patch to add doc string support to defmulti [Was: (doc)strings after param in defn]

2008-12-08 Thread J. McConnell
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 04 December 2008 23:23, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 5 Dez., 00:38, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > And am I mistaken in my reading of the API docs for (defmulti ...) >> > and

Re: Java vararg functions called from Clojure

2008-12-08 Thread Tom Emerson
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good call on it being a convenient function to have around. It's available > as clojure.core/format. There's also printf along the same lines. Steve, that is probably the most politely worded, "Read the API docs you g

Re: List comprehension: :when AND :while for the same binding?

2008-12-08 Thread Chouser
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 8, 10:08 am, Chouser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> doseq currently supports both. If both appear on the same binding, >> the :while is always test first regardless of the order in which they >> appear in the dos

Re: Extending Clojure's STM with external transactions

2008-12-08 Thread Dave Griffith
Okay, hacking complete. I've got a patch that extends the Clojure STM so that it will make appropriate callouts to an external transaction manager that cause the STMs transaction to be atomic/consistent/ isolated with respect to an external transaction, using a "dosync- external" macro. Note tha

Re: Java vararg functions called from Clojure

2008-12-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 08 December 2008 10:53, Stephen C. Gilardi wrote: > On Dec 8, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Tom Emerson wrote: > > I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Perhaps > > something along the lines of > > > > (defn format-string > > [fmt & args] > > (String/format fmt (to-array args))) >

Re: Java vararg functions called from Clojure

2008-12-08 Thread Stephen C. Gilardi
On Dec 8, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Tom Emerson wrote: I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Perhaps something along the lines of (defn format-string [fmt & args] (String/format fmt (to-array args))) Hi Tom, Good call on it being a convenient function to have around. It's avail

Re: Math as multimethods

2008-12-08 Thread ppierre
On 8 déc, 17:14, Mark Fredrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Alternatively, could I provide a "multi- > >> math" lib to redefine the core math functions? > > > Type classes would be king. > > Do you mean this in the Haskell sense? Yes : http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/classes.html Haskell ma

Java vararg functions called from Clojure

2008-12-08 Thread Tom Emerson
Calling Java vararg functions seems to be less transparent in Clojure interop: (String/format "%03d" 5) java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Integer cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.Object; (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0) [Thrown class clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException] while (String/format "%03d"

Re: java build it HTTP server, proxy and HttpHandler interface

2008-12-08 Thread prhlava
Oops, The subject should have read: java built in HTTP server, proxy and HttpHandler interface... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googleg

java build it HTTP server, proxy and HttpHandler interface

2008-12-08 Thread prhlava
Hello again, I am trying to use java built in HttpServer and it looks that the handle method of HttpHandler interface does not get called at all (but the server "works" - returns a blank page, which is expected as I do not write anything in the handle method). The following example is minimal i

Re: Clojure Blogs | Yahoo Pipes | Clojure Pipe

2008-12-08 Thread Phil Hagelberg
Dan Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's been mentioned before but I'd like to see a planet.clojure.org à > la the planet planet powered sites (http://www.planetplanet.org/). I do a lot of work with feeds; I've been toying with the idea of porting Planet to Clojure. We use the Rome feed par

Re: Running clojure-contrib.jar

2008-12-08 Thread Michael Wood
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:31 PM, janus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stuart >> (1) You are using an old version of Clojure. You will need to build >> Clojure and Clojure-contrib from SVN in order to work through the book >> examples. > When I tried (require 'clojure.contrib.str-utils) > I got 'nil

Re: Running clojure-contrib.jar

2008-12-08 Thread janus
Stuart > (1) You are using an old version of Clojure. You will need to build   > Clojure and Clojure-contrib from SVN in order to work through the book   > examples. When I tried (require 'clojure.contrib.str-utils) I got 'nil' which shows that all is well. I downloaded the most recent binary vers

Re: BUG: resultset-seq breaks on duplicate column names

2008-12-08 Thread Michael Reid
Has anybody else hit this? I just did. Its not tricky to alter resultset-seq to return maps with qualified keys: (defn resultset-seq "Creates and returns a lazy sequence of structmaps corresponding to the rows in the java.sql.ResultSet rs" [#^java.sql.ResultSet rs] (let [rsmeta (. rs (g

Re: Running clojure-contrib.jar

2008-12-08 Thread Stuart Halloway
Hi Emeka, Two problems here: (1) You are using an old version of Clojure. You will need to build Clojure and Clojure-contrib from SVN in order to work through the book examples. (2) It is examples (plural) not example (singular). Also, what version of the book are you working from? The mos

Re: Running clojure-contrib.jar

2008-12-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 08 December 2008 08:17, janus wrote: > ... > > > However, I still get error when I try to do > (require 'example.introduction) > Error Message: Cloud not locate Clojure resource on classpath: > example/introduction/introduction.clj Then you haven't given or have given an incorrect path

Re: parens in use function

2008-12-08 Thread Mark Volkmann
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 8 Dez., 17:03, "Mark Volkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm finding it a little difficult to remember all the allowed >> permutations. Hopefully over time this will become second nature for >> me, but

Re: My Clojure Emacs Setup (I'll show mine if you show yours)

2008-12-08 Thread Kyle R. Burton
I was wondering, since Emacs knows the file name (or at least the buffer name) and line number it's sending a form from, and Clojure represents that as meta-data (I think), could C-x C-e send that along somehow wrapped in a form that sets these particular values for the form that was shipped over?

Re: Running clojure-contrib.jar

2008-12-08 Thread janus
Hi All, It is working now. I found that I followed the instruction provided by the author blindly, it was not meant for the windows box(vista) I am using. The problem is on path separation, the book used forward slash instead of backward slash. The solution: SET CLASSPATH=\clojure\clojure\clojure

Re: Math as multimethods

2008-12-08 Thread Mark Fredrickson
> >> Alternatively, could I provide a "multi- >> math" lib to redefine the core math functions? > > Type classes would be king. Do you mean this in the Haskell sense? (I'm not too familiar with those) Or something more like Java's types? I was thinking about how to solve this problem more gen

Re: parens in use function

2008-12-08 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, On 8 Dez., 17:03, "Mark Volkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm finding it a little difficult to remember all the allowed > permutations. Hopefully over time this will become second nature for > me, but I'm not there yet. I'm sticking mostly with the way in your example. I structure my :u

Re: Calling superclass methods from implemented methods

2008-12-08 Thread Matt Revelle
The original plan was to use the super keyword to signal that invokespecial should be used. Now that you mention the lack of type relationship, that problem is obvious. I suppose adding a :supers is what I'll do. -Matt On Dec 8, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Rich Hickey wrote: > > > > On Dec 8, 9:

Re: parens in use function

2008-12-08 Thread Mark Volkmann
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 8 Dez., 16:32, "Mark Volkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have some questions about the following: >> >> (use '[clojure.contrib.str-utils :only (str-join)]) >> >> Why is the vector quoted? Is that beca

Misplaced doc strings in clojure.contrib.seq-utils

2008-12-08 Thread Perry Trolard
In clojure.contrib.seq-utils, partition-by & group-by have docstrings following their arglists, so (doc parition-by) prints - clojure.contrib.seq-utils/partition-by ([f coll]) nil nil I'd submit a patch, but I'm sure it's easier if Stuart Sierra or another of the contri

Re: Calling superclass methods from implemented methods

2008-12-08 Thread Rich Hickey
On Dec 8, 9:30 am, Matt Revelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on a patch to add support for calling the superclass' > implementation of a method when overriding a method in Clojure with > ns/:genclass. This looks like it requires a modification of the > InstanceMethodExpr class in cl

_Programming Clojure_ sample code on github, with unit tests

2008-12-08 Thread Stuart Halloway
Hi all, I have placed the sample code for _Programming Clojure_ on github, at http://github.com/stuarthalloway/programming-clojure . Most of the code samples now have unit tests, using Stuart Sierra's test-is. If you see an erratum in the book that you suspect was caused by changes to Cloj

Re: parens in use function

2008-12-08 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, On 8 Dez., 16:32, "Mark Volkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some questions about the following: > > (use '[clojure.contrib.str-utils :only (str-join)]) > > Why is the vector quoted? Is that because we need to quote everything > inside the vector? You don't have to quote the vector:

Re: List comprehension: :when AND :while for the same binding?

2008-12-08 Thread Rich Hickey
On Dec 8, 10:08 am, Chouser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 6, 7:52 pm, André Thieme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (for [x (range 1 20) :when (> x 8) :while (< 0 (rem x 13))] x) ==> > >> java.lang.Exception: Unsup

Re: Calling superclass methods from implemented methods

2008-12-08 Thread Geoffrey Teale
2008/12/8 Matt Revelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm working on a patch to add support for calling the superclass' > implementation of a method when overriding a method in Clojure with > ns/:genclass. This looks like it requires a modification of the > InstanceMethodExpr class in clojure.lang.Compi

parens in use function

2008-12-08 Thread Mark Volkmann
I have some questions about the following: (use '[clojure.contrib.str-utils :only (str-join)]) Why is the vector quoted? Is that because we need to quote everything inside the vector? If so, what does it mean to quote the keyword :only? Why is the parameter to the use function a vector? Why ca

Re: List comprehension: :when AND :while for the same binding?

2008-12-08 Thread Chouser
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 6, 7:52 pm, André Thieme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (for [x (range 1 20) :when (> x 8) :while (< 0 (rem x 13))] x) ==> >> java.lang.Exception: Unsupported binding form: :while >> >> But: >> (for [x (range 1 20) :w

Re: Thanks for Clojure

2008-12-08 Thread bnb
I had been dabbling in Common Lisp for awhile and finally purchased LispWorks. Four days later(11-18-08) I discovered Clojure and was captured. Since then I have spent over 90% of my time in learning Clojure...Enclojure...Netbeans...Emacs...Clojure Box...Java...Ant...etc. Thanks Rich. --~--~-

Calling superclass methods from implemented methods

2008-12-08 Thread Matt Revelle
I'm working on a patch to add support for calling the superclass' implementation of a method when overriding a method in Clojure with ns/:genclass. This looks like it requires a modification of the InstanceMethodExpr class in clojure.lang.Compiler. The proposed syntax would be: (. super/

Re: Non-NS-qualified hierarchies

2008-12-08 Thread J. McConnell
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 7, 9:01 am, Mibu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is it possible to remove the asserts in derive that restrict the >> parent and child to namespace-qualified names? >> >> It would be much more useful if the asserts are m

Re: Thanks for Clojure

2008-12-08 Thread Geoffrey Teale
2008/12/8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > +1 on all the thanks. I haven't had this much fun learning a new > language since school! You da' man Rich! > I can see this is going to get gratuitous, but another thanks from me. I spent a good part of the weekend changing over some Qt-Jamb

Implementing .toString from Clojure

2008-12-08 Thread Jeff Rose
I've got a Clojure library based around a custom data structure stored in a struct. When printing I'd like to override the default string output for structs, but I'm not sure how to implement the .toString method used by (str ...) from Clojure. Anyone know how to do this? It would be cool i

Re: List comprehension: :when AND :while for the same binding?

2008-12-08 Thread Rich Hickey
On Dec 6, 7:52 pm, André Thieme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (for [x (range 1 20) :when (> x 8) :while (< 0 (rem x 13))] x) ==> > java.lang.Exception: Unsupported binding form: :while > > But: > (for [x (range 1 20) :when (> x 8)] x) ==> > (9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19) > > And: > (for [x (ra

Re: Non-NS-qualified hierarchies

2008-12-08 Thread Rich Hickey
On Dec 7, 9:01 am, Mibu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to remove the asserts in derive that restrict the > parent and child to namespace-qualified names? > > It would be much more useful if the asserts are moved to the global- > hierarchy case ([child parent]) and the "private" hier

Re: reduction

2008-12-08 Thread Rich Hickey
On Dec 7, 4:10 pm, Christophe Grand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich Hickey a écrit :> I think the problem is that in the original and > subsequent versions, > > work was being done in the current case that needn't be (checking the > > status of coll), and that we need more laziness than lazy-

Re: Emacs / Slime questions

2008-12-08 Thread Shawn Hoover
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Mark Engelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Thanks for all the info. I've searched my whole hard drive for a > .emacs file, and can't find one. Can someone tell me where Clojure > Box stores this file, or whether it's called something entirely > different? > Cl

Re: Thanks for Clojure

2008-12-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+1 on all the thanks. I haven't had this much fun learning a new language since school! You da' man Rich! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure

Re: Thanks for Clojure

2008-12-08 Thread Rich Hickey
On Dec 6, 11:12 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've moved pretty much all my spare-time projects over to clojure and > it's been a pleasure so far. It's a nice piece of work. It seemed > appropriate to say thanks for it. So thanks! You're quite welcome! Rich --~--~-

Re: linux, named pipe (fifo) and (while ...)

2008-12-08 Thread prhlava
Hello Samantha, > Why not just stream it into a JDBC Blob to your database? The "daemon" does more than just storing it in the database (it is basicaly a postfix mail filter something like spamassassin in principle, but does different things with the e-mails). > Is there some reason the mai

Re: linux, named pipe (fifo) and (while ...)

2008-12-08 Thread prhlava
Hello Randall, > If your application is client/server, you really should just go with an > ordinary TCP connection (or, conceivably, a UDP port), define a proper > protocol and do the whole thing properly. This makes sense (if done right, the submitter can be invoked several times in parallel a

Re: linux, named pipe (fifo) and (while ...)

2008-12-08 Thread Samantha Atkins
On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:12 PM, prhlava wrote: > > >> You're asking for the pipe to be repeatedly opened, one >> uninterrupted glob of bytes read and processed and then the pipe >> closed. Is that really what you intend? > > Yes, that was my intention, maybe a rethink is in order... > >> As writ

Multicore-programming workshop in Paris

2008-12-08 Thread Konrad Hinsen
I just received the following announcement. I think a presentation on Clojure could fit in well, so if someone geographically close and competent is interested... Konrad. Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Jean Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: December 5, 20