Jim <jimpil1...@gmail.com> writes:

> On 17/05/13 11:00, Phillip Lord wrote:
>> It's a nice language, I think. It inherits however the some of the
>> nastiness of Java, in particular it doesn't integrate at all into the
>> OS; the makes it not a good fit for little scripting, one-off jobs which
>> form the basis of a lot of scientific computing.
>
>
> aaa yes indeed...the jvm is indeed very heavy-weight for such scripting
> tasks...on the other hand have you looked at clojure-py? I'm not up-to-date
> with its current state/features but it should be viable for little scripting
> jobs... :)


Well, I an proficient in python, so it's probably easier just to use
python. Even if the documentation sucks.


>> Which gives me the dynamic scoped behaviour, but not the global
>> resetting behaviour.
> I quickly wrote the following but I get an exception which I
> don't have the time to sort at the moment...maybe later this evening... :)


It's okay! I have a workable solution now, even if it still seems a
little unfair that I cannot take the same approach that clojure.core
does under the same circumstances!

Phil

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