Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-18 Thread Ken Wesson
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Aaron Bedra aaron.be...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/17/2011 09:21 PM, Ken Wesson wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:57 PM, pmbauerpaul.michael.ba...@gmail.com  wrote: Manning's forum would be a better home for errata than the Clojure mailing list.

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-18 Thread pmbauer
Sorry; I don't really care for web forums much. I think mailing lists and Usenet are much to be preferred. Please do use Manning's forum for this. Actually, I can't. My copy is borrowed, for now, rather than my own, so I don't have an account there. Actually, you can. You just have to

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-17 Thread Ken Wesson
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Fogus mefo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ken, Thanks for this.  I agree that a different name would be much more clear. Here's one from chapter 7. Section 7.1.2, near the end, has: Perhaps you see a familiar pattern: we apply the column-names vector as a function

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-17 Thread Alan
On May 17, 4:35 am, Ken Wesson kwess...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Fogus mefo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ken, Thanks for this.  I agree that a different name would be much more clear. Here's one from chapter 7. Section 7.1.2, near the end, has: Perhaps you see a

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-17 Thread pmbauer
Manning's forum would be a better home for errata than the Clojure mailing list. http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=624 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-17 Thread Ken Wesson
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:57 PM, pmbauer paul.michael.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Manning's forum would be a better home for errata than the Clojure mailing list. http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=624 Sorry; I don't really care for web forums much. I think mailing lists and Usenet

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-17 Thread Aaron Bedra
On 05/17/2011 09:21 PM, Ken Wesson wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:57 PM, pmbauerpaul.michael.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Manning's forum would be a better home for errata than the Clojure mailing list. http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=624 Sorry; I don't really care for web

Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-16 Thread Ken Wesson
In section 5.2.6: A MapEntry is its own type and has two functions for retrieving its contents: key and val, which do exactly the same thing as (nth my-map 0) and (nth my-map 1), respectively. Er, unclear at best. I think (nth my-map-entry x) would be better. Calling nth on a map throws an

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-16 Thread Fogus
Hi Ken, Thanks for this. I agree that a different name would be much more clear. As a side note, maybe we could use a single thread for JoC related flubs so as not to clog the mailing list on a chapter-by-chapter basis? Another option is to use Manning's forum at