Re: Convincing employer to go for Clojure

2013-01-07 Thread Gert Verhoog
On 8/01/2013, at 12:02 PM, David Jacobs wrote: > 1. Would it be harder to hire if we built our apps with Clojure? More > specifically: Hiring for people who know about or already love Clojure/FP > is certainly a nice filter for talent, but is it too stringent of a filter? Finding really good pe

Re: Friend: an extensible authentication and authorization library for Clojure Ring webapps and services

2012-04-19 Thread Gert Verhoog
That looks promising, good work! I read through the docs and browsed the sources, and (admittedly without trying to code an example myself) it's not immediately obvious to me how Friend would handle the following use case: Given: - three users: alice, bob, and admin. Alice and Bob have a "user"

Re: [ANN] swank-clojure 1.3.4 released

2011-12-28 Thread Gert Verhoog
On 28/12/2011, at 2:03 PM, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > I just pushed out version 1.3.4 of Swank Clojure. Great stuff, thanks! I ran into the problem with an older clj-stacktrace jar as you describe in the documentation, because I'm including [ring "1.0.1"] in my project.clj, which uses clj-stacktra

Re: Clojure list syntax sugar: f(x) notation

2011-12-27 Thread Gert Verhoog
On 26/12/2011, at 6:23 PM, Louis Yu Lu wrote: > My proposition is enhance Clojure to accept both (f x) and f(x) Fortunately, I don't see that happening, for several reasons (many of which have been mentioned). It adds complexity, causes confusion and inconsistent coding styles and it will break

Re: Codox: an API doc generator for Clojure

2011-12-26 Thread Gert Verhoog
I love it, thanks, and I got it running in about 10 seconds: lein install plugin codox 0.3.1 lein doc Question: One of my ns docstrings is a fair amount of text which is rendered as a really long line (because codox puts it inside a ... element). How would you deal with longer documentation str

Re: Lazy sequence blows starck. Why?

2009-07-03 Thread Gert Verhoog
On 4/07/2009, at 2:42 PM, David Cabana wrote: > (defn triangle-numbers [] > (lazy-cat [1] (map + (iterate inc 2) (triangle-numbers > > This second approach dies with a stack overflow. Can anyone shed some > light on why? The last (triangle-numbers) is recursive, but without loop/recur this

Re: [OT] Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-26 Thread Gert Verhoog
On 26/06/2009, at 8:55 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: > Well, the guy is a real startup veteran. I explained to him with some > help from a bunch of Paul Graham essays that we want to use Clojure > just > because it is "practically" more suitable for the problem at hand and > not because we are

SWT (Cocoa) from Aquamacs+SLIME?

2009-06-08 Thread Gert Verhoog
Hi everyone, I've started playing with SWT + Clojure (I know very little about SWT and I've just started out with Clojure, so please bear with me) and I would like to get it going from within Aquamacs Emacs + SLIME. I'm not sure if this is a real Clojure question or more of a Cocoa/Carbon