I’m not so sure I entirely agree :-) - complect/simple are unambiguous and can be measured, however there is still room for discussion as to _what_ is complected, but I think I am in danger of splitting hairs now.
> On 24 Nov 2015, at 09:34, Herwig Hochleitner <hhochleit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015-11-24 4:31 GMT+01:00 William la Forge <laforg...@gmail.com > <mailto:laforg...@gmail.com>>: > > For me, the winner is avoiding static structures. I am tired of doing ongoing > refactorings interrupted periodically by complete rewrites. Class hierarchies > are the worst--being the largest, they are the least stable. > > I don't think you'll gain much in that regard, by inventing a new way of > pre-binding functions to data, a.k.a instantiating objects. The built-in > mechanism for this is called clojure.core/partial. Much more can be gained by > concentrating on the flow of data. Functions + immutable data are an > excellent tool for that. In that image, an "object" would just be a (static) > join point in the data-flow graph. > > Nevertheless, there are legitimate use cases for composing behaviors > mixin-style. Clojure directly supports this in the form clojure.core/extend, > by which you can define a protocol implementation by a map of functions. > > 2015-11-24 9:11 GMT+01:00 Colin Yates <colin.ya...@gmail.com > <mailto:colin.ya...@gmail.com>>: > > One man’s complexity is another man’s simplicity and so on. > > More like: One man's state is another man's data, isn't it? > > Seriously though, I'll have to insist that "simple" is an objective term, as > opposed to the subjective "easy", hence assignments of simple vs complex > should be agreeable. Thanks to Rich Hickey for that interpretation. > > -- > 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 > <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 > <mailto:clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
