Brian Craft <craft.br...@gmail.com> writes:
> For example, I have a project with rather modest requirements, one of them
> being abstract path manipulation. In javascript:
>
> path.normalize(path.join("one", "two", "..", "three"))
> 'one/three'
>
> ruby:
>
> irb(main):003:0> Pathname.new("one") + "two" + ".." + "three"
> => #<Pathname:one/three>
>
> python:
>
>>>> os.path.normpath(os.path.join("one", "two", "..", "three"))
> 'one/three'
>
> In clojure, people recommend me.raynes.fs:
>
> => (fs/file "one" "two" ".." "three")
> #<File /inside/home/craft/cavm/one/two/../three>
>
> ugh.
>
> => (fs/normalized-path (fs/file "one" "two" ".." "three"))
> #<File /inside/home/craft/cavm/one/three>
>
> um, no. Turns out there is no abstract path join + normalization in
> me.raynes.fs. I haven't found an alternative in clojure.
>
> This is trivial to work around, but I hit this kind of thing constantly
> with every clojure library I use: clojure libraries are about 70%
> implemented, and 90% correct, which makes a weak foundation. I was amused
> to find the Lisp Curse article a few weeks ago, which describes this
> situation. It's often easier to write something from scratch than to patch
> one of the partially-implemented libraries. But this scales poorly, and one
> is truly starting from zero with clojure.
One of the interesting questions, I think, is the embrace the host
notion. One solution to the problems you describe is to just use the
equivalent java libraries. Is this a failure of the clojure library
ecosystem or a pragmatic solution?
Phil
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