On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Sean Devlin <francoisdev...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Ummm.... some of these thing DON'T map to Clojure. > > I'd suggest you check out Rich's videos here: > > http://blip.tv/file/982823 > > Anyway, as to how you would solve some of these problems in Clojure... > > Static methods you get for free, because everything is a function in > Clojure. > > Singletons aren't really required, because using a keyword generally > gets the same effect. You can also use a memoize function to prevent > expensive things being created more than once. > > As far as Inheritance & Interfaces are concerned... well, uh... those > generally aren't used in Clojure. Personally, I use a lot of maps > where I used to use objects. I've found that I like my code better > now. > Inheritance & Interfaces can be achieved via multi-methods and types. Also checkout deftype and defprotocol work in the new branch. > Others might have some other ideas on how to com from Java to Closure. > > Sean > > On Dec 12, 8:13 am, ajay gopalakrishnan <ajgop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I come from a OOPS (Java) world and I am used to Singletons, Inheritance, > > Statics, Interfaces etc. > > I am reading the Programming Clojure book and I understand multi-methods > and > > when it is used. > > But I am still not able to see how to achieve the effects of Singletons, > > Inheritance, Statics, Interfaces etc. in Clojure. If the book explains it > > somewhere, I would be glad to get a pointer to that too. > > When I say "achieve the effects" , I am not asking if there is a way to > > define a Singleton class etc. I am asking that if the design in my head > has > > all these things, how would I translate that into Clojure (some way or > the > > other) or what modifications would need to be made to my design (in my > head) > > to able to directly write it in Clojure terms. > > > > Thanks, > > Ajay G. > > -- > 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<clojure%2bunsubscr...@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 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
