On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 6:39 PM, nicolas.o...@gmail.com < nicolas.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So I suggest you take it to heart. Put deftype, defrecord and > defprotocol > > away and don't pull them back out for quite some time. At the beginning, > > they are just a distraction from Clojure's core philosophy. Focus on > maps, > > vectors, sets, functions, multimethods and macros. > > But there are just some algorithms that you need to write in a low-level > way. > (Implementing the data-structures built-in in Clojure would be such an > example.) > > And for this, it you are on the JVM, you want a way to build objects. > And then comes deftype. And after 2 hours, you realise that you would > like to have traits. > (It is quite rare to need them, but very useful when it is the case). Nearly all of the data structures have been ported to ClojureScript. It's not clear to me that we needed traits at any point. David -- 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
