clojure-lanterna is pretty cool. https://github.com/sjl/clojure-lanterna
I'm interested in hearing about alternatives as well. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:09 AM, blake <dsblakewat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Pardon my interruption: What are you using for screen output for your > roguelike? > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Isaac Karth <isaacka...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I've been working on some projects (roguelikes, story-generators) that >> often have a reason to have a random outcome for things like procedurally >> generating a map. Ideally, they would be deterministically psuduorandom, so >> that I can generate the same results from the same seed. The part I'm >> having trouble with is figuring out what method to use to implement this in >> a functional way. >> >> The naive approach that first occurred to me was to pass a PRNG and seed >> value into each function. That would certainly keep the functions >> referentially transparent. But it would also require either rewriting a >> bunch of functions that don't directly use the randomness themselves or >> adding the RNG as part of the map that's already being passed. >> >> Plus, the seed should probably vary (deterministically) between calls to >> the subfunctions. It's not too useful if all the rooms on a map have the >> same type because they all pulled their die roll from the same-nth result >> of the exact same seed. Maybe the seed could be created from the contents >> of the vector or a UUID of a map object or something? >> >> The other suggestion I've run across is to rebind something like >> clojure.data.generators/*rnd* for each high-level procedural generation >> call. I think this requires the generation to be single threaded and >> otherwise deterministic. At the moment I don't feel like I know enough >> about how things work under the hood to say if this a good idea or not. >> >> I've poked around at the bigml.sampling and clojure.data.generators >> libraries, which look useful for dealing with some of this, but I haven't >> come across anything that directly addresses what kind of architecture to >> use for deterministic randomness. This may be my inexperience. I feel like >> I may be a bit too close to the problem, and I can't quite see what the >> idiomatic answer is. Re-read SICP? Implement some kind of monad? Just bite >> the bullet and pass the RNG+seed? Find the secret pure functional library >> everyone is using for repeatable stochastic simulations? >> >> Does anyone have any advice on this? Or prior experience with approaches >> that work? What are some best practices for approaching deterministic >> simulations in an idiomatic, functional way? >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Kind Regards, Atamert Ölçgen -+- --+ +++ www.muhuk.com -- 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.
