Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-16 Thread Chouser
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Alexander Kjeldaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Clojure states that it has good support for list comprehensions. Maybe I'm misunderstanding list comprehensions, but I'm not completely happy. I want a way to have destructuring work on the sequence, not on the

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 13:39, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2008 11:40, Rich Hickey wrote: As we rapidly approach 500 members on the group (!) I thought it would be a good time to conduct another poll: What are you doing with Clojure? Tinkering.

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-16 Thread J. McConnell
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to add: 2) Balanced-boundary (non-EOL-terminated) comments. Whether the syntax is #| ... |# (á là Common Lisp) or /* ... */ (C- and Java-like) or something else, I don't much care, but I think both

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-16 Thread J. McConnell
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Allen Rohner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one weakness with the comment macro; the Reader has to be happy with the body of the comment. Including things like # in the comment body can upset the reader and cause your file to not compile. Yeah, that

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-13 Thread kyle smith
What are you doing with Clojure? I'm trying to write a DSL for molecular dynamics analysis (with partial success). Users will be able to compose complex properties from basic info such as bond lengths/angles, position, velocity, etc. I'd like to add regression and integrate it with a 3d viewer

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-13 Thread Craig McDaniel
What are you doing with Clojure? I work in a fairly conservative environment where they probably wouldn't approve of my using a language in an alpha state, much less a variant of Lisp! But since I love the language and the interactive environment with Emacs, I decided it's easier to beg

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-13 Thread Moxley Stratton
On Sep 10, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Rich Hickey wrote: What are you doing with Clojure? Nothing at the moment. I wrote a knowledgebase engine inspired by the Cyc project, and I also wrote part of a web application in Compojure that lets users create web forms. What 3 features would you most

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Drummond
I am currently spending all my spare time developing a website in Python/Django as I felt I needed to learn about a popular existing web framework before attempting to experiment with new ideas in Clojure. As such I haven't been working with Clojure directly for some time but I hope to return to

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-12 Thread Rich Hickey
On Sep 11, 4:29 pm, James Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 10, 7:40 pm, Rich Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you doing with Clojure? Working on Compojure, a library/framework for developing web applications. What 3 features would you most like to see added next? 1.

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-12 Thread radu.floricica
What are you doing with Clojure? Still learning, will try to use it in a production app soon. What 3 features would you most like to see added next? I just took a look at the contrib section, and realized that a summary of what is available is nowhere to be found (or at least not easy

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-12 Thread Dmitri P
Doing: learning, deciding whether clojure is appropriate for my company projects Would like: 1) up to date documentation. Online docs are so far behind SVN it's not funny. Yes yes, SVN is not release, but in the beginning stages of the project as it is things happen very fast and sticking with

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-12 Thread Chouser
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Mike Hinchey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Line and position for compile errors, including in the repl. Like this? user= (def foo yoink) java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: yoink in this context clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException: NO_SOURCE_FILE:97:

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-11 Thread hoeck
On 10 Sep., 21:28, Allen Rohner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, not that I'm asking you or anyone else to build this, I'm just throwing this out there to see if anyone else is thinking along the same lines as me :-). I think it would be really cool to build a database in Clojure. SQL the

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-11 Thread Stuart Sierra
On Sep 11, 1:18 am, Apurva Sharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) Equivalent of 'format' macro. This would be really helpful in debugging. There is a printf in recent Clojure SVN. -Stuart --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-11 Thread Allen Rohner
On Sep 11, 8:32 am, Paul Stadig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a stupid idea as well (related to reader macros). Is there any way we can get the reader to not have problems with #!/usr/bin/clojure as the first line? This would allow simple and standard use of Clojure in a script file. Or

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-10 Thread Rastislav Kassak
On 9/10/08, Rich Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As we rapidly approach 500 members on the group (!) I thought it would be a good time to conduct another poll: What are you doing with Clojure? Nothing ATM, not enough time. :) What 3 features would you most like to see added next?

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-10 Thread Raoul Duke
There are many subtle nuances that have to be understood, and many things you initially try to do are the 'wrong way' etc. request-to-all from this newbie: pretty please add even succinct notes about those things to the wiki. somewhere consistent, so other newbies can find them. 2) Any

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-10 Thread Tom Emerson
One possibility would be to come up with a wrapper around SleepyCat's Java DBD implementation... basically it is providing the low-level features you mention on top of which one could build a bunch of different things. On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Allen Rohner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-10 Thread Rastislav Kassak
Yeah, CQL (Clojure Query Language) is that data manipulation example I was mentioning. :) On 9/10/08, Allen Rohner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you doing with Clojure? A webapp using compojure + statistics ( bayes probability, clustering ) What 3 features would you most like

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-10 Thread John Hodge
What are you doing with Clojure? Nothing yet, still learning. What 3 features would you most like to see added next? Just two I can think of: 1) a persistent priority queue 2) a persistent deque, modeled perhaps on Haskell's Data.Sequence. Thanks, Jack

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-10 Thread Raoul Duke
total n00b still, here. if chances come up to speed-up the compiler (e.g. would something like Scala's fsc be something one could create for Clojure?), i'd never say no to such changes. :-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-10 Thread Shawn Hoover
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Rich Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As we rapidly approach 500 members on the group (!) I thought it would be a good time to conduct another poll: What are you doing with Clojure? Exploring Lisp and Clojure's functional approach and concurrency tools. I

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 16:15, Shawn Hoover wrote: ... 1. A native executable would be preferred to launching with java or a batch file (on Windows, especially, where you're always left with an extra Y/N prompt after you Ctrl-c out of the REPL). Explore the difference between the

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-10 Thread jim
What I'm doing? Learning functional programming concepts (monads, monad transformers, arrows) Learning logic programming concepts. Implementing state machine, parsing and relational algebra/calculus libraries. HTML, Javascript and CSS generators. Writing a net server framework; have an HTTP

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-10 Thread Apurva Sharan
, Mumbai, New Delhi Subject: Clojure Poll 09/2008 As we rapidly approach 500 members on the group (!) I thought it would be a good time to conduct another poll: What are you doing with Clojure? What 3 features would you most like to see added next? Thanks, Rich

Re: Clojure Poll 09/2008

2008-09-10 Thread Rastislav Kassak
On 9/11/08, jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm doing? Learning functional programming concepts (monads, monad transformers, arrows) Learning logic programming concepts. Implementing state machine, parsing and relational algebra/calculus libraries. HTML, Javascript and CSS