Those are great links Linus, thank you.
Also highly relevant and beginner friendly is the text adventure game
chapter from the, "Land of Lisp" book, of
which a free clojure translation is available online:
http://www.lisperati.com/clojure-spels/casting.html
Cheers,
Joshua
On Oct 31, 6:01 pm, Linus Ericsson <oscarlinuserics...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> "No one can be told what the matrix is."
>
> Well, the best way to understand the macros is to try it out yourself. John
> Lawrence Aspden published some really helpful tutorials om macros, and a
> kata - try it! Links in the end.
>
> There are some other code examples around, also look in the source-code of
> clojure core and various clojure contrib libraries for a lot of examples,
> some of which you have to contemplate and come back to later. They have
> some macros in the code. Also beware that you most often don't want to use
> macros in the first place, since you can solve most problems with the
> incredible powerful functions as well.
>
> Last but not least I would recommend getting some good books on Clojure, I
> started with "Programming Clojure" of Stuart Halloway and it was really
> helpful for me.
>
> Most problems can be expressed as a sequences of key-value-maps to which
> you apply map and reduce (or nowadays protocols for more speed). Be
> prepared to spend some time getting your head around the transition to
> functional, lazy, immutable code with macro-programming, it will be worth
> it. You will still have good use of you java-knowledge, but will probably
> structure your programs differently.
>
> I also had great help of the beginning of Paul Grahams Practical Common
> Lisp avail free at:http://pragprog.com/book/shcloj/programming-clojure
>
> Macro
> kata:http://www.learningclojure.com/2010/11/syntax-quote-kata-for-confused...
> Macro
> tutorial:http://www.learningclojure.com/2010/09/clojure-macro-tutorial-part-i-...
> Clojure source code repositories:https://github.com/clojure/
> Programming Clojure:http://pragprog.com/book/shcloj/programming-clojure
>
> /Linus
>
> 2011/10/31 vikbehal <vikbe...@gmail.com>
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> > Can anyone give me some basic example which contained nested quotes
> > and unquotes? with explanation at each step!
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