Clojure isn't for the most part a community effort therefore decisions about the language and it's core library are seldom made in the collaboration with the community.
In my opinion, if you want your language change proposal to be considered, you have to justify and back it up by a strong real world scenario. >From my experience, help from the community to the Clojure language itself is most sought in the areas of bugfixing and documentation and performance improvements. Jozef On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 11:42:42 AM UTC+2, Gordon Syme wrote: > > With respect, I have searched prior conversations and have not found a > justification for why any? is in clojure.core rather than clojure.spec. > > All the problems people have raised with any? are due to it be a predicate > with a very specific use-case (defining specs) but placed in a namespace > where it masquerades as general purpose. > > In clojure.spec any? could have a docstring documenting its intent for > speccing which would be a great help for new folks. > > With a terse, general purpose docstring in clojure.core it leads to > confusion, semantic mismatches and becomes yet another "gotcha" for new > Clojure developers. > > I understand that there are more constraints in the development of the > language and its core libraries than we are exposed to, and that this > conversation is frustrating for you, but please take note that the Clojure > community is trying hard to collaborate on this issue. > > Respectfully > > -Gordon > > -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
