Yeah, I ended up writing two such functions for converting Clojure
sequentials into JS arrays and maps into JS objects:
https://gist.github.com/1141054
(Note that they won't convert a vector containing maps or vice versa
properly, so they're not quite "nice functions" yet.)
On Aug 11, 2:14 pm, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Kevin Lynagh <klyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Alright, thanks for the info. Do you know why an automatic solution is
> > out?
>
> > I'm trying to use D3 from ClojureScript, but right now all of the
> > clarity I get from Clojure's nicer data manipulation abstractions is
> > lost having to convert to/from JS objects everywhere.
>
> At the very least there should be nice functions to call to convert
> back and forth explicitly, if automatic conversion is out and a reader
> macro will only work for compile time constants. So one could use
> @@the-structure for constants, and (to-js the-structure) for anything
> else, or something of the sort. Or is such a function already there,
> but considered annoying enough to want to be able to hide it in
> implicit conversions or short, pithy reader macros? Of course, in the
> latter case, a reader macro that expands to the function call could
> work on non-constants, though, as @foo already expands to (deref foo)
> in normal Clojure and does not require foo to be a compile time
> constant.
>
> --
> Protege: What is this seething mass of parentheses?!
> Master: Your father's Lisp REPL. This is the language of a true
> hacker. Not as clumsy or random as C++; a language for a more
> civilized age.
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