On Jan 12, 5:24 am, e <evier...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's funny, whenever I tried to be all safe like this and take the time to > make stuff safe in C++, coworkers would say, "we are grown-ups. At some > point you gotta stop being a paranoid programmer.
Given that software bugs are a very common occurrence, I'd say we're far from being paranoid enough :) > Another thing is to make the common case easy . . . .and uh, mutable local > variables are pretty darn common, In imperative languages, yes, but not really in functional languages. I've written a fair amount of Clojure code, and I haven't used with- local-vars once. - James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
