Michael Fogus's Blog, page 25

A Response to Ineffectual Java-NG Proposals

// There is a difference between classes and data

// All classes and data are immutable by default public data Person { String name; Int age;

// return type inference public toString() { return name + " is " + age; }

}

// somewhere else

// Chains replace the need for ordered arg [...:]

(take 6 (george-jahad))

George Jahad is, in my estimation, one of the most exciting Clojure hackers...

Monkeying with Clojure's deftest

Say you have a namespace a that needs to be tested: 1 (ns a) (defn ^{:private true} foo [:] 42) Using Clojure's clojure.test libs you might think it would be as simple as the following: (ns b (:use [clojure.test :only [deftest is]])) (deftest test-foo (is (= 42 (a/foo)))) ; java.lang.IllegalStateException: var: #'a/foo is not public [...:]

(Community Standards)

As with any Lisp ever created, Clojure has recently been infected with talk of alternative layout styles of closing (and in some cases, open) parentheses...

Monkeying with Clojure's comp Function

A slight modification to Clojure's comp function gives me more power...

Monkeying with Clojure's defmethod Macro

I've at times found the need to use the precise match form of Clojure's multimethod dispatch value -- so created a macro to make it a little easier.

MartinOdersky take(5) toList

Dr. Martin Odersky on Scala and Clojure.

Joy of Clojure – In the Books!

Chouser and I have finished our book...

(take 5 (brenton-ashworth))

renton Ashworth is relatively new to the Clojure community, but has already created four interesting (and useful) projects...

(take 7 (david-nolen))

David Nolen is the lead developer of the ShiftSpace project and is a Clojure / Javascript / Squeak / Haskell / C / Objective-C developer who recently made waves with his series of posts comparing node.js and the Aleph library. David fights the good fight on Hacker News and provides the world with source [...:]