Yes, Jarkko, that Scheme guide is very useful. Would it be worthwhile to refine it with some clojure-specific things and promote it somewhere where people will see it (to the Clojure web site)?
On Jul 19, 3:52 pm, Jarkko Oranen <chous...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm not aware of any comprehensive style guide for Clojure. However, > there is a scheme style guide athttp://mumble.net/~campbell/scheme/style.txt > which contains plenty of good advice that applies to Clojure as well. > > In addition to the above advice, I have a personal recommendation > regarding Clojure java interop: Avoid using the . (dot) form directly > -- use the sugared alternatives: (.field foo) for instance fields/ > methods and Classname/staticField for static fields, eg. (println Math/ > PI) or (System/exit 0). > > My reasoning for this is that in a call form, the operator position is > more important than the rest of the list, and just having "." there > tells you nothing but that the code is going to access Java in some > way. If you use the specialised syntax, any reader of the code will > also immediately know whether you're accessing static or instance > fields. > > Moreover, learn the -> macro. It can really make a big difference when > chaining lots of method calls. :) (There's also .., but I prefer -> > because it allows chaining both clojure functions and java methods) > > -- > Jarkko --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
