I cannot think of anything in Clojure as crazy as the stuff in the video; 90% of the stuff in Clojure is a big, big improvement over Java, et al. And a good chunk of that 90% is simply brilliant.
Having said that, there are a few WAT type things in Clojure, from small annoyances like the presence of assoc-in but no dissoc-in to larger ones like the surprising conversion of vectors into (effectively) lists, and the unintended consequences that follow (see https://goo.gl/2ANisU). The whole reason I posted this link was so people would think about how a decision that seems like an expedient shortcut in the present can cause long-lasting pain in the future. Alan On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 1:14 PM, larry google groups < lawrencecloj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Waiting for the Clojure and Scala version. :-} > > But there won't be. Not ever. Not really. The reason I prefer Clojure over > Javascript or Ruby is because so much care and thought went into the APIs > of Clojure's core structures and syntax. If you try really hard, you can > find the occasional article about some unusual choices that the Clojure > core team has made, but you won't find anything quite as crazy "wat - 1" == > NaN. > > You look at the way the core team waited to figure out how to handle the > passing of data structures to functions, and the beautiful style of > destructuring that emerged -- that's the history of Clojure in a nutshell. > > I am willing to believe that there are some Haskell fanatics who find > aspects of Clojure funny, but the point of the lighting talk was about > things that are obviously wrong: > > [] + {} > Object > > {} + [] > 0 > > Can you think of anything in Clojure that is as crazy as that? > > > > > > > On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 12:01:30 PM UTC-4, Alan Moore wrote: >> >> Thanks for the laugh! Waiting for the Clojure and Scala version. :-} >> >> Alan >> > -- > 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.
