On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg < odysso...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think it's java that is at fault here. I think wildcards should never > have been part of java to begin with. The argument here is basically > exactly the same as why :use shouldn't be used, so I wont explain it > further. Well, Clojure is hosted on Java and clean interop is one of its goals. The fact of the matter is that many Java libraries are designed and documented with the existence of the wildcard in mind. The code is fragmented across many small classes that are designed to be imported en masse with a wildcard. The documentation often does not even provide any details about which specific classes are located where, it simply shows to use the wildcard to get them all. Whether this is Java's "fault", the fact that Clojure does not embrace this idiom has concretely hurt my ability to use Java code. -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
