Hi,
What's the benefit of hiding/abstracting the underlying platform away? There are reams of documentation about the Java classes and simply renaming them to say they are Clojure classes would seem to reduce the discoverability of those docs. JMTC Aaron On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 02:50:01PM -0800, Mark Gandolfo wrote: > I tried asking this on twitter and wasn't getting my question across in 140 > characters so I decided to post here. > I'm curious as to why Clojure as a language hasn't abstracted/hidden all of > Java's classes and created their own in the Clojure. namespace. > > For example > > Big Ints are of type and class Clojure.lang.BigInt. > > user=> (type 10000N) > clojure.lang.BigInt > user=> (class 10000N) > clojure.lang.BigInt > > > Although a Long is a java.lang.Long both in type and class > > user=> (class 1) > java.lang.Long > user=> (type 1) > java.lang.Long > > > Similarly a character is of type java.long.Character > > user=> (type \a) > java.lang.Character > user=> (class \a) > java.lang.Character > > > Again with Java strings > > user=> (class "string") > java.lang.String > user=> (type "string") > java.lang.String > > > Although a Strings have a few functions in the clojure.strings namespace > which can be accessed. Why wouldn't clojure.lang.string be the type? And > somehow inherit/remap all of the java string functions? > Was this design decision made during the languages conception to clean up > the clojure namespaces? Or is there another reason that I'm not seeing? > > > -- > 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.
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