I believe that working with maps is a lot like working with locals and
function names...nothing will help you with bad naming. So don't do stuff
like {:foo 42 :bar 33} when you can do stuff like {:min-age 42 :max-age
33}. Also stick with sane naming conventions. Don't do {:maxAge 42} in some
places and {:MaxAge 42 :max-age 33} in others. And finally using namespaced
keywords can really help, so perhaps even consider {:age/min 42 :age/max
33} or perhaps even {:age-range [42 33]}. In short, think about how you
structure your data and you will go far.And to be frank, on the average project I work on I very rarely run into the "bag of data" problem. Intact I spend way less time working on the structure of the data than I do actually getting work done. And in the past, when I've used strongly typed data I often found myself arguing with my co-workers about type inheritance and co-variance/contra-variance (sp?), instead of actually coding the logic I was being paid for. So to quote a wise saying I heard once...."statically typed languages don't solve the problems I have". Perhaps I'm unique in this regard, but my time spent with other Clojure programmers tells me otherwise. As an aside, I recommend playing with stuff like tools.analyzer to see how far the "bag of data" can take you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhRQmT22SSg Timothy On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Sean Corfield <s...@corfield.org> wrote: > Gary Trakhman wrote on Monday, November 30, 2015 at 2:26 PM: > > I'd like to try haskell, but I'm not sure types in general would provide > enough benefit to be worth it for small projects and well-written/tested > large ones. > > > There’s always https://github.com/Frege/frege-lein-plugin and > https://github.com/Frege/frege-lein-template if you want to try Haskell > (Frege) inside your Clojure app! > > Sean > > -- > 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. > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- 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.
