Yeah, it's hard to deny the convenience of Clojure's keyword lookups and standard assoc mechanism for getting and setting stored values, but I think Bertrand Meyer's Uniform Access Principle reflects some pretty deep thinking about the kinds of complications that arise in maintaining large programs. Although the Clojure community mostly rejects the Uniform Access Principle right now, as people start writing larger programs in Clojure, and need to maintain them for longer periods of time, it will be interesting to see if the pendulum swings back in favor of uniform access.
It will be fun to have this conversation again in 5 years time. The good news is that if the community does start to see more value in uniform access, achieving that is just a few macros away. --Mark On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Mars0i <marsh...@logical.net> wrote: > On Thursday, October 16, 2014 11:53:42 PM UTC-5, puzzler wrote: >> >> In Clojure, non-computed fields are usually accessed directly by keyword, >> whereas computed fields require an actual API. This difference in access >> style complicates things if you want to change which things are stored >> versus computed. >> > > This also means that you have to remember which data has a keyword > accessor and which uses a function. > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
