With regards to reducers, I think it's worth watching one of Rich's own talks on this as well:
http://vimeo.com/45561411 On Friday, August 17, 2012 6:29:29 PM UTC-4, Ben Mabey wrote: > > On 8/17/12 3:03 PM, Rich Morin wrote: > > I took a break from reading "Programming Clojure, 2e" to watch Stuart's > > InfoQ interview: > > > > Stuart Halloway on Datomic, Clojure, Reducers< > http://www.infoq.com/interviews/halloway-datomic> > > http://www.infoq.com/interviews/halloway-datomic > > > > I have a couple of questions which I hope folks can answer... > > > > Q: Is there an extended treatment of Clojure "data literals"? > > > > Stuart discussed these, saying that they hit a sweet spot between XML > and > > JSON. I'd like to see an extended discussion of this topic, but Google > is > > letting me down. Any suggestions? > > > > > > I haven't listened to the interview, but he was most likely referring to > the new "Reader Literals" (a.k.a. tagged literals) support in 1.4. The > best place to read about this new feature is in the changes.md of > clojure: > > https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/changes.md > > I've been using the tagged literal support in my current app and it has > been very useful. I've been exporting streams of events as clojure data > structures that I have been replaying in the system at later times > (event sourcing). Being able to represent any arbitrarily object as my > own custom literal and have it be read in automatically in a language > supported way makes my life a lot easier. :) > > -Ben > -- 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
