i know that will be awesome for me. I just wish clojure.org was the only place I had to go to get stuff like that. Why not wikify it all there?
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:12 PM, GS <gsincl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 14, 1:12 am, Timothy Pratley <timothyprat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've written small wiki article which dives right into the look and > > meaning of common Clojure constructs with examples. Personally I find > > I learn best by examples and when starting out they were hard to find, > > whereas formal descriptions were there but rather cryptic when you > > don't understand the context. My intention is to provide an initial > > understanding of how programs look, what they mean, and what can be > > accomplished because of their features... from which someone would > > then move to one of the more complete articles and references. > > > > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming/By_Example > > > > I hope someone finds it useful :) > > That's really good, Tim. I hope you continue with it :) AFAIC, just > about every function in core, set, zip and xml needs to be documented > by example. I'm just not smart enough to read the API docs of a lot > of functions and understand how to use them. > > Some efficiency could be gained by demonstrating several functions at > once, clearly labeling them. An example without much thought: > > (Heading) map, range > > (map sqr (range 1 10 2)) ; after defining sqr > > Cheers, > Gavin > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
