Re: the Expression Problem and its solutions - [PROGRAMMING]

2018-10-27 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 01:25:43PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Enter the White Knight, Clojure, with syntax so powerful only Lisp > dialects raise their heads in a collective superiority sneer. > (Observing Java's predicates and other such Lisp wanna be syntax, > it's rather fugly IMEHO.)

the Expression Problem and its solutions - [PROGRAMMING]

2018-10-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
The Expression Problem is faced by all programmers who create anything other than simple programs. Represent abstractions with types, add procedures, methods or functions (choose your term) to manipulate those types, and some time later, one is invariably faced with the 2 problems: - adding new