And I encourage you to do so: everything that can help bridge the gap between "Java's way of programming things" and "Clojure's way of programming things" will be benefitial to everybody.
2009/12/13 Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> > Ajay, > > It seems to me your questions are totally justified. It's a normal reaction > to try to make links between things you know and things you discover. > Fortunately, the world doesn't expect you to forget everything you've done > in the past in order to try new other things. > > Your questions, to be answered well (in deep detail, not just at the > surface of things, and with sufficient examples so that you just feel > "dump", with answers like "I know how to do, you'll eventually know too" - > sort of -), would deserve a book on its own : "From java to clojure : Design > patterns revisited", or something like that. > > The problem is, from each thing you pointed, one needs to go back to the > underlying need, and from that need, go back to the underlying software > principle. And then, from that, one can derive the software principle in > clojure, show the several ways to do, etc. .... > > So there's really no problem with your questions, apart the fact that > they're certainly too general to get a comprehensive answer. > > I (as other already did in this thread) encourage you to experiment with > some concrete examples. It will be easier for you to get precise answers. > > HTH, > > -- > Laurent > > 2009/12/12 ajay gopalakrishnan <ajgop...@gmail.com> > >> 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
