Re: Naming convention for atoms, refs, etc.?

2015-12-06 Thread Mars0i
On Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 5:52:02 PM UTC-6, Glen Mailer wrote: > > I saw some sample code that prefixed the atom name with a ! recently, > seemed to look sensible to me. > > (swap! !state conj :whatever) > > And so on. > This idea is conceptually elegant, since the marker, !, is the same as

Re: [ANN] 2015 State of Clojure Community survey

2015-12-06 Thread Mars0i
On Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 3:26:55 PM UTC-6, Lee wrote: > > > On Dec 6, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Alex Miller > wrote: > > > Almost all of the questions are optional - if they don't apply to your > scenario, you should skip the question. > > FWIW if I recall correctly (it won't let me back in to

Re: Naming convention for atoms, refs, etc.?

2015-12-06 Thread Glen Mailer
I saw some sample code that prefixed the atom name with a ! recently, seemed to look sensible to me. (swap! !state conj :whatever) And so on. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.

Re: Naming convention for atoms, refs, etc.?

2015-12-06 Thread Nicola Mometto
I seriously doubt that's ever going to happen. There's no good reason to do that. > On 6 Dec 2015, at 21:00, Gregg Reynolds wrote: > > > On Dec 6, 2015 2:45 PM, "Nicola Mometto" wrote: > > > > 'foo@ is not a valid symbol name > > Oops. Maybe now is the time to make good on "other characters

Re: [ANN] 2015 State of Clojure Community survey

2015-12-06 Thread Lee Spector
On Dec 6, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Alex Miller wrote: > Almost all of the questions are optional - if they don't apply to your > scenario, you should skip the question. FWIW if I recall correctly (it won't let me back in to check the questions now that I finished it) I think that some questions sort

Re: Naming convention for atoms, refs, etc.?

2015-12-06 Thread Gregg Reynolds
On Dec 6, 2015 2:45 PM, "Nicola Mometto" wrote: > > 'foo@ is not a valid symbol name Oops. Maybe now is the time to make good on "other characters may be allowed eventually" (from the Reader doc.) I can't think of a good reason not to allow @ in symbols. Would it mess anything up? > > On 6 De

Re: Naming convention for atoms, refs, etc.?

2015-12-06 Thread Nicola Mometto
'foo@ is not a valid symbol name > On 6 Dec 2015, at 20:44, Gregg Reynolds wrote: > > Ps. Note the nice symmetry between *foo* and @foo@. > > On Dec 6, 2015 2:42 PM, "Gregg Reynolds" wrote: > Postfix @? Haven't pondered this before but I like the idea. Why should > perl have all the fun? >

Re: Naming convention for atoms, refs, etc.?

2015-12-06 Thread Gregg Reynolds
Ps. Note the nice symmetry between *foo* and @foo@. On Dec 6, 2015 2:42 PM, "Gregg Reynolds" wrote: > Postfix @? Haven't pondered this before but I like the idea. Why should > perl have all the fun? > On Dec 5, 2015 3:47 PM, "Mars0i" wrote: > >> &, $, and ! might be good to use as special nam

Re: Naming convention for atoms, refs, etc.?

2015-12-06 Thread Gregg Reynolds
Postfix @? Haven't pondered this before but I like the idea. Why should perl have all the fun? On Dec 5, 2015 3:47 PM, "Mars0i" wrote: > &, $, and ! might be good to use as special naming characters for > atoms/refs/agents, either as an initial char, a final char, or both, but > I'm wondering w

Re: [ANN] 2015 State of Clojure Community survey

2015-12-06 Thread James Reeves
On 6 December 2015 at 20:15, Gregg Reynolds wrote: > I take to to mean "Who's paying for it?" A departmental app could have > one dev and no users. > On Dec 5, 2015 7:36 PM, "Leif" wrote: > >> I took it to mean "How many people are *using* your Clojure app?" >> >> On Friday, December 4, 2015 at

Re: [ANN] 2015 State of Clojure Community survey

2015-12-06 Thread Gregg Reynolds
I take to to mean "Who's paying for it?" A departmental app could have one dev and no users. On Dec 5, 2015 7:36 PM, "Leif" wrote: > I took it to mean "How many people are *using* your Clojure app?" > > On Friday, December 4, 2015 at 3:33:10 PM UTC-5, puzzler wrote: >> >> I took it to mean "How

Re: [ANN] 2015 State of Clojure Community survey

2015-12-06 Thread Alex Miller
Almost all of the questions are optional - if they don't apply to your scenario, you should skip the question. What question would be useful to add re use in academia? On Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 8:12:59 AM UTC-6, Lee wrote: > > > > On Dec 6, 2015, at 2:43 AM, Mars0i wrote: > > > > As in

[ANN] aatree release 0.6.0--building databases from components

2015-12-06 Thread William la Forge
The aatree project provides fully compatible alternatives to Clojure sorted-map, sorted-set and vector, with several extensions: - AAVector supports add/drop at any point using addn and dropn. - AAMap and AASet implement Reversible, Counted, Indexed and Sorted - CountedSequence implements Co

Re: [ANN] 2015 State of Clojure Community survey

2015-12-06 Thread Lee Spector
> On Dec 6, 2015, at 2:43 AM, Mars0i wrote: > > As in the past, many survey questions are not appropriately designed for > getting info about uses of Clojure in academic research. I don't think > there's very much use of of Clojure for this purpose, but the survey won't be > able to track it