On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:55 AM, michele <michelemen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I really like Clojure, but as a complete n00b on Lisp languages, it is
> frustrating that I many times have to hunt high and low for
> documentation on basic stuff.
>
> Recently I saw a code snippet that showed that reduce takes an
> optional initial value, something I didn't know. When I see something
> new, I usually go back to the documentation or the book I might be
> reading to see if there is something more to learn about the current
> function, and to familiarize myself with the documentation.
>
> Well, to my surprise and frustration, I haven't found any place which
> documents that reduce takes an optional initial value.
>
> The first impression of the Clojure home page was a nice ordered set
> of pages of documentation, but I soon realized that listing all the
> functions with some textual explanation, just doesn't cut it. I
> usually end up googling for more conrete information that shows me how
> to actually use the functions.
>
> Please, dear very good Clojure creators, if you don't want Clojure to
> be another language for the specially initiated, good examples will
> take Clojure to the next level.
>
> People are just like Clojure, lazy.


True, while we wait for someone to actually build such a site I recommend
that you ask your questions on:

1) The mailing list
2) #clojure channel at irc.freenode.net
3) StackOverflow

In all three places you'll get nice friendly answers pronto.

Two other useful things at the REPL are (doc function-name) and (source
function-name).

David

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