Some more first impressions from a newbie. The language is AWESOME, but here are some of the first specific questions I wondered about.
1) I found myself wanting to do an import *, though I understand this has been commented on already, and argued against. I'm not really arguing FOR it, but I think a lot of Java developers will also have the same thought and try to do that, especially on their inital attempts to hack around on it. 2) The great attraction of lisp for me is the power to get rid of any sort of redundancy wherever I see it. One of the very first things that stood out to me about a Clojure program, was big long Java class names at the top (imports), and again in the code itself. Regardless of whether or not doing so would be a 'good' thing, it seemed to me, especially in a lispy dynamic language like this, that there should be some way to eliminate this. Consider the following: (import '(me.stuff MyBigFatClassName)) (. MyBigFatClassName staticDoSomething) It seems (to me) I ought to be able to replace MyBigFatClassName with a variable/alias of some sort, or an expression/fn/macro that evaluates to the same thing. I haven't yet found a way, maybe just due to my ignorance. I do realize for instance expressions, u can have a 'let' variable assigned to the instance, and use that, but the question remains for static access, method names, etc. Supposed i want to replace 'System' with 's' and do a (. s out). I was especially surprised using the (symbol "..") form didn't work. 3) On a super minor nit-picky note, I was surprised that some of the '(pr ...)' ish methods didn't return the result of what they were printing. One of the very first things I wanted to do was to wrap another expression around (pr ..) for debugging purposes, but since it didn't return its argument, I couldn't do this (it broke the higher up expression using the value). Granted writing my own version that did just this was super trivial, but I find myself wondering why you wouldn't want functions to always return something if at all possible, for convenience just in case it needs to be used. Maybe I'm missing a conceptual reason why this is so? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
