> Very cool! Now the logic of pacman is in a form I can easily read :-) I assume you are referring to the gameinternals post not my code !
I do not know why it only works in Chrome. The error "too much recursion" is confusing. It happens before the game is rendered so I suspect it's in the code which parses the board. The only explicit recursion I do is my implementation of (range) here: https://github.com/mjg123/pacman/blob/gh-pages/src/pacman/board.cljs - but that uses (recur). There's also the nested for loop in that same file, I have no idea how (for) works internally. The gameloop uses a javascript timer-with-callback to call itself so that won't consume stack space. Another thing is that it seems to be machine dependent - it works fine in ff6 on my work pc but not on my (much) older home PC. There are also rendering bugs in Firefox which seem to be caused by SVG arc-segments with negative radius - I assume this is just an implementation difference in a grey area of the spec. If there's interest I can try to pare down the code to a minimal case which throws the "too much recursion" error? mg On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Sam Aaron <samaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very cool! Now the logic of pacman is in a form I can easily read :-) > > Out of interest, do you know why it only works in Chrome? Doesn't the closure > library do any work to shield you from from the browser differences, or is it > simply a performance issue with the Chrome js engine the only one operating > fast enough to smoothly render the game? > > Sam > > --- > http://sam.aaron.name > > On 17 Aug 2011, at 23:00, Matthew Gilliard wrote: > >> I've been playing around writing a fun little ClojureScript project - >> it's a bit different, so I thought you might like to see it: >> >> http://mjg123.github.com/pacman/pacman.html >> >> As I was feeling my way quite blindly through ClojureScript and >> gClosure I have let the code get into a bit of a mess and I don't >> think I'll really work on it much more. I have learned an awful lot >> though (which was the main objective) - my main lessons are: >> >> - ClojureScript is awesome. The performance and stability of it are >> really astounding. Really great work guys. >> - Debugging a ClojureScript app is hard. I never figured out how to >> get js/console to work. My best solution was to compile & run very >> often, so that errors were caught quickly. Better yet would have been >> thorough testing ;) >> >> - it *is* possible to write a game with no mutable state (well, I use >> an atom to hold the most-recently-pressed key, but apart from that... >> The state-of-the-world datastructure is immutable) >> >> - Some functions missing from ClojureScript which surprised me: range, int >> - Some functions behave differently between Clojure and ClojureScript >> (due to underlying platform differences): mod >> >> - Testing is very important. The gClosure jsunit stuff looks nice >> but I'd love a midje-like API for it. >> >> Browser-compatibility: Chrome - OK, Firefox 6 - sometimes crashes >> with "too much recursion", IE/Safari - Forget it. >> >> Happy to answer any questions, otherwise I'll be over here hacking >> some Clojure :) >> >> Matthew >> >> -- >> 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 > > -- > 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 -- 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
