Re: if nil is true

2017-01-31 Thread Sayth Renshaw
On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:25:31 UTC+11, Leon Grapenthin wrote: > > Hi Sayth, welcome to Clojure. > > Read like this: > > (nil? nil) > ;-> true > Is nil nil? True. > > (true? nil) > ;-> false > Is nil true? False. > > Kind regards, > Leon. > > Thanks Leon. Yeah it does make sense it just

Re: if nil is true

2017-01-30 Thread Sayth Renshaw
On Monday, 30 January 2017 19:02:08 UTC+11, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > > > > On Monday, 30 January 2017 18:53:44 UTC+11, Alan Forrester wrote: >> >> >> > Hi >> > >> > If nil is true >> > >> > clojure-noob.core> (nil? nil)

Re: if nil is true

2017-01-30 Thread Sayth Renshaw
On Monday, 30 January 2017 18:53:44 UTC+11, Alan Forrester wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > If nil is true > > > > clojure-noob.core> (nil? nil) > > true > > > > Then why doesn't nil return from this statement as the first true value? > > This expression is a function invocation. The function is

if nil is true

2017-01-29 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Hi If nil is true clojure-noob.core> (nil? nil) true Then why doesn't nil return from this statement as the first true value? clojure-noob.core> (or false nil true) true Sausages does as expected. clojure-noob.core> (or false "sausages" true) "sausages" Thanks Sayth -- You received this

Re: Pareto's Clojure

2015-11-12 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Thank you Eric that does really look like you have nailed a good core of clojure. Thank you also for providing the references I really think it will help. Excited to see how many solutions I can make using these. Sayth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

Pareto's Clojure

2015-11-10 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Morning Currently driving through Clojure country reading Clojure for the brave abs typing examples out of the clojure cookbook. Following Paretos principle 80/20 rule the 20% usually drives the 80% of outcomes. if I did a deep dive into the most important 20% of clojure what would I dive into

Re: clojure, not the go to for data science

2015-04-05 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Would be good to get that on a wiki for all so we could update and share as a resourcee. Sayth On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 at 04:47 Christian Weilbach wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > >> > > >> http://viewer.gorilla-repl.org/view.html?source=github&; > user=ghubber&repo=cnc&p

Re: clojure, not the go to for data science

2015-04-02 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Agree Chris, I think Clojure has a lot of advantage. I never intended to knock Clojure just question as a person returning to look at the project at the potential roadblocks whether real or perceived that were potentially limiting its adoption. Sayth On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 at 10:07 Christopher Small

Re: clojure, not the go to for data science

2015-04-02 Thread Sayth Renshaw
k on the little set up details. I'd like to make Gorilla REPL easier to get started with, but haven't figured out how to do that in a way that's compatible with the amount of time I have to work on it! Jony On Thursday, 2 April 2015 22:14:08 UTC+1, Sayth Renshaw wrote: You appe

Re: clojure, not the go to for data science

2015-04-02 Thread Sayth Renshaw
You appear to have vastly misinterpreted my intention regards Emacs. My mention of Emacs (I use emacs with prelude) was not based on my usage but as a perception of those who might be attracted to Clojure For Purely Data Science And wishes to get installed and moving quickly. R offers to get you

Re: clojure, not the go to for data science

2015-04-01 Thread Sayth Renshaw
I saw all the changes to incanter. lot of breaking changes going into version 2 but they seem to reduce dependencies and going to core.matrix as you pointed out. There are a lot of things in clojure that I have found that I just haven't heard about need to clean some web data there are severa

Re: clojure, not the go to for data science

2015-04-01 Thread Sayth Renshaw
> > On 29 March 2015 at 13:47, Colin Yates > > wrote: > >> Cursive Clojure, LightTable and CounterClockwise are all good Clojure >> IDEs. >> >> On 29 March 2015 at 09:54, Sayth Renshaw > > wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > I last lear

Re: clojure, not the go to for data science

2015-03-30 Thread Sayth Renshaw
would wonder why not clojure here. Is there a level of advocacy missing? Sayth On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 5:06 PM Mikera wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 00:01:32 UTC+8, Phillip Lord wrote: > >> >> >> >> Sayth Renshaw writes: >> > I last learned cl

clojure, not the go to for data science

2015-03-29 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Hi I last learned clojure in 1.2. Just curious why Clojure hasn't developed as a go to for data science? It never seems to get a mention R,Python and now Julia get the attention. By design it would appear that Clojure would be a good fit. Is it a lack of libraries, ease of install, no good de

Re: Clarification on setting up Clojure, Lein and Emacs on fedora

2012-12-29 Thread Sayth Renshaw
On Sunday, 30 December 2012 15:31:42 UTC+11, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > > I believe Fedora ships with Leiningen 1.7.1, which is not what you > want. It's better to install manually, see http://leiningen.org; that > way you will get 2.x. Don't install Clojure or Contrib through your OS > package m

Clarification on setting up Clojure, Lein and Emacs on fedora

2012-12-29 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Just want to make sure I get this right. I am running F18 and am setting up clojure. These would be the packages to install, correct? clojure.noarch clojure-contrib.noarch leiningen.noarch emacs-slime.noarch *For slime and the emacs repl* clojure-mode, slime, slime-repl and swank-clojure rest

Advice on Clojure, Emacs, Lein setup on Fedora

2012-12-29 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Hi I am running F18 and wanting to setup and get goin in Clojure Just wanted to put a summary of the things I have got so far in case I have missed something easy obvious that will get me going quicker. *Fedora* To setup on Fedora I have installed these packages(emacs already installed) clojure-