Re: Why I have chosen not to employ clojure

2010-03-21 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
Comments anyone ? > > I can get pretty far writing an application in Python with nothing more than good command line support and syntax highlighting in any text editor. Anything extra like completions, refactoring, etc, are just nice-to-haves. I don't see why an IDE is required for writing

Re: Why I have chosen not to employ clojure

2010-03-21 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
ld be friendly on all > supported platforms. I don't have a Windows machine so I can't easily add Windows support. I'm assuming that what I'm doing with Bash should be possible to accomplish in Windows, perhaps using BATCH scripts. Patches/pull requests are welcome :) -- Cosmin Ste

Re: Why I have chosen not to employ clojure

2010-03-21 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
ven (not to mention neither lein or clojure-mavne-plugin were available at the time AFAIK). I still find this the quickest way to get Clojure working on a new machine.I would appreciate any feedback. http://github.com/offbytwo/cljenv -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com -- You received t

Re: Why I have chosen not to employ clojure

2010-03-21 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
ulties in deploying Clojure applications. At least as far as web applications go, I really like the one WAR file deployment of Java applications. It's certainly far easier in general than deploying Python applications for example. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com -- You received this

Re: Swank, ELPA and Emacs version do you use?

2010-03-21 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
ing to 23 yet. If you have a choice you should probably start with 23. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.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 me

Re: clojure-contrib on build.clojure.org

2010-02-26 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
for clojure-contrib I only see snapshots at > http://build.clojure.org/snapshots/org/clojure/clojure-contrib/ > The release jars are at http://build.clojure.org/releases/org/clojure/clojure-contrib/ -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com -- You received this message because you ar

Re: ClojureCLR status?

2010-02-26 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
ake long. > > Should I make heartbeat commits once a week so people will know > there's still life in the body?  :) > I vote for checking in once in a while, perhaps on a separate development branch. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com -- You received this message because yo

Re: Sweeping Networks with Clojure

2009-07-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
definitely sounds like the right solution for this type of problem. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send em

Re: EY map reduce contest

2009-07-15 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
esting idea, not sure if anything but a brute force method is > possible ? > Given the time constraints I don't think even a brute force solution is feasible (for less than the $2000 prize). Looks more like a lottery, but I guess I'll have to wait until after the contest to see if anyone c

Re: Confusion on Clojure 1.0, compatible clojure-contrib, git-hub, svn, ...

2009-07-13 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
7;ve had plenty of confusion when switching from SF with people running old code, and now that there are 2 repos around that are no longer maintained I suspect the confusion will only increase. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rece

Re: I must be blind. No matching method found?

2009-06-24 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
;i must be blind") (int 4)) java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching method found: substring for class java.lang.StringBuilder (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0) -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscri

Re: Recursive function that does not terminate!

2009-06-24 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
t;(recur (assoc map (first ks) (first vs)) > > (next ks) > > (next vs)) > >map))) > > nil > > Yes, this (Steve's) version, using next and testing directly with (and > ks vs) is the idiomatic way when you are not in turn

Re: Recursive function that does not terminate!

2009-06-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
map))) user=> (my-zipmap [:a :b :c] [1 2 3]) {:c 3, :b 2, :a 1} -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send emai

Re: Small question: Best way to create a map with vector vals

2009-06-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
{:a [1], :b [3 > 5], :c [1]}) > (defn mystery-fn [coll] (reduce (fn [map [k v]] (assoc map k (conj (get map k []) v))) {} coll)) user=> (mystery-fn [[:a 1] [:b 3] [:b 5] [:c 1]]) {:c [1], :b [3 5], :a [1]} -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~--

Re: accum

2009-06-17 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
h Winzip, and compile with ant. By the way, there is a Download button on http://github.com/richhickey/clojure/tree/master and http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/tree/master that allows you to download a snapshot in zip or tgz formats. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~

Re: Status of Clojure on .NET?

2009-06-10 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
re was an updated post to the list from David on May 31st, although it seems to be pretty hard to find using search on the google group. I finally tracked a link to it down by going backwards through the archive and looking at all the threads from May 31st. http://grou

Re: possible bug?

2009-05-21 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Michael Wood wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Christophe Grand > wrote: > > > > Cosmin Stejerean a écrit : > >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM, George Jahad > >> mailto:andr...@blackbirdsystems.net>> &

Re: possible bug?

2009-05-20 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
; "/" > > to this: > > (def s1 (Symbol/create (.intern (first (.split "user/n1" "/") > > will fix your problem. > That makes a lot of sense and I guess I should have paid attention to the fun

possible bug?

2009-05-20 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
/")) "user") true user=> (class (first (.split "user/n1" "/"))) java.lang.String user=> (ns-publics s1) java.lang.Exception: No namespace: user found (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0) user=> (ns-publics s2) {s2 #'user/s2, s1 #'user/s1} -- Cosmin Stejerean ht

Re: Chicago Clojure May meeting at Sully's House on May 20th (tomorrow)

2009-05-19 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Michel S. wrote: > > On May 19, 12:45 pm, Cosmin Stejerean wrote: > > The second Chicago Clojure meetup will focus on a in-depth introduction > to > > Clojure concepts and syntax, presented by Frederick Polgardy. You > definitely >

Chicago Clojure May meeting at Sully's House on May 20th (tomorrow)

2009-05-19 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
ions for food and drinks during the meeting. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googl

Re: Git with Google Code

2009-04-29 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
aintaining that, it's what I always use to check out Clojure. I'm curious, how frequently is that updated from SVN? (Meaning, what is the longest amount of time a commit can exist in SVN but not in your mirror?) I've never had a problem, but I'd like to know for future refe

Re: Recursively delete files

2009-04-22 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
; This kind of functionality reminds me of the "os" module in Python. I propose a similarly sounding namespace under contrib. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: The Path to 1.0

2009-04-17 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
e) will have to produce patches of (only!) > fixes from the trunk for the release branch, and occasionally produce > point releases (1.0.x) from that branch. This is actually something that I am interested in doing (porting fixes from trunk to 1.0) so I would love to help with that process

Re: Contribs with dependencies

2009-04-16 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
unning with minimal fuss. That still leaves open the question of how to decide which third party libraries are OK to include as a dependency. That seems to require a more formal process similar to the PEP's in Python. Maybe it's too early for someth

Re: How to compile in AquaMacs without slime? classpath problem for classes

2009-04-12 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
t; operations that would really, really be > useful. Especially if it responded automatically such that when you > dropped new jars you could kill slime and restart and you would be > good (although emacs insta-starts on my mac so it isn't a big deal). > None of that is hard to do

Re: Got a Clojure user group?

2009-04-11 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Rich Hickey wrote: > > Got a Clojure user group, meetup etc? > > Reply to this message and let me know, I'll add them to the Clojure > site. > Chicago http://onclojure.com/chicago/ -- Cosmin Stejer

Re: Generic functions again

2009-03-24 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
to remember though you can quickly try out an example at the REPL. I do that all the time in Python when I want to verify that what I remember is in fact correct. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because y

Re: file io

2009-03-24 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
-all, because it takes an argument for how many bytes to read. This argument just happens to be optional, in which case it will read everything. This is particularly useful when reading data from a binary file where you have to read the data in chunks (and you obviously can'

Chicago Clojure meetup

2009-03-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
If you're in or around Chicago I'd like to invite you to come out for the first meeting of the Chicago Clojure User Group on April 15th. Full details are at http://onclojure.com/chicago/ -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

Re: STM and useful concurrency

2009-03-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
on retries that > occurred in a particular run of an application. If such a tool isn't > needed or wouldn't be useful, I'd like to understand why. > I can imagine how in certain situations a profile mode where Clojure keeps t

Re: STM and useful concurrency

2009-03-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
us. That doesn't mean Java's approach is bad, after all the internals of Clojure are implemented using Java locks. But explicit management of locks is often too low level and unnecessarily complex, and Clojure provides a higher level way of dealing with concurrency that makes it eas

Re: Unit Testing Macros

2009-03-17 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
est for the 'defn' macro If it worked correctly then the following expression should be true (= (macroexpand-1 '(defn foo [x y] (+ x y))) '(def foo (clojure.core/fn ([x y] (+ x y) and it is, because (defn foo [x y] (+ x y)) does in fact expand out to (def foo

Re: swank-clojure: swank-clojure-init-files not used

2009-03-15 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
clojure and slime from > their respective version control systems. > As a workaround you can try adding ~/.clojure to the classpath, Clojure will automatically load user.clj if found on the classpath. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: On the importance of recognizing and using maps

2009-03-11 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
ing the above techniques that makes it easy (I think) to separate code and data in Python by composing instances that provide data with classes that provide behavior at runtime. http://gist.github.com/77848 -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~

Re: Static type guy trying to convert

2009-03-11 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Jon Harrop wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 March 2009 15:30:01 Cosmin Stejerean wrote: > > Actually it happens a lot in real code and in many non-trivial programs > in > > static typed languages you end up with a proliferation of types that ar

Re: On the importance of recognizing and using maps

2009-03-11 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
__getattr__ or __getattribute___). I've used these techniques in places where I need to treat an object like a dictionary for interop, or places where I wanted to use a dictionary but with the nicer syntax for attribute access on objects ( a.foo instead of a['foo'] saves 3 keystrokes

Re: Static type guy trying to convert

2009-03-11 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
to write a new language I would make it dynamically typed because that is my preference, not because it is easier. I can imagine that there is some subset of language designers that really would prefer to use a statically typed language but end up not implementing it beca

Re: Proposal: remove auto-load of user.clj

2009-03-09 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
e the exception IMHO. I don't fully understand the reaons for loading user.clj at all outside of the REPL, could someone explain the benefits of the current approach? -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message bec

Re: How do I setup Clojure REPL to automattically use some libraries?

2009-03-06 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
rib such as the repl-utils and the stacktrace libraries > whenever it first loads. > > Thanks for your in advance. > IIRC Clojure will automatically load user.clj if found in CLASSPATH, so I think it would be a good place to put any kind of customizations. -- Cosm

Re: Chrono date library

2009-03-05 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
is. If anyone else is interested here is a link to github for chrono.clj<http://bit.ly/d8sYf> (syntax highlighting). For some reason I couldn't locate test-chrono.clj in the repo. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You r

Re: Monad tutorial, part 1

2009-03-05 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
http://onclojure.com/2009/03/05/a-monad-tutorial-for-clojure- > programmers-part-1/ > > Feel free to post comments! > Here's a shorter URL if you'd like, the longer link got broken up for me http://bit.ly/E81zf -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~--

Re: Mathy operations on non-numerics (was "Adding" strings)

2009-02-26 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
venience vs speed is always a trade-off, but I think convenience > should win in the default case. What do others think about this? > I would much rather have a fast-math library that redefined common operators for numeric types only, and had the default +, <, > be multimethods. --

Re: Privacy problems with clojure-contrib mirrors

2009-02-24 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2009, at 17:55, Cosmin Stejerean wrote: > > > But more importantly you can't expect that people go ahead and > > change all (any really) of the existing git or mercurial clones of > > the rep

Re: Problem with svn checkout

2009-02-24 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
oup. > git://github.com/kevinoneill/clojure.git -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@goog

Re: Privacy problems with clojure-contrib mirrors

2009-02-24 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
r email address sooner or later someone puts up an archive of a mailing list you are on and exposes your email address. (For example http://www.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.security.ssh/2003-01/0402.html) -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--

Re: :use feature requests

2009-02-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
es my recommendation would be to use to :use statements :use foo.bar :only [eggs, spam] :use foo.bar :as fb -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure

Re: alternate syntax

2009-02-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
ure I've seen at least one). -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.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 To un

Re: :use feature requests

2009-02-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
> (:use clojure.zip :only (xml-zip node)) > (:use clojure.contrib.zip-filter :as zf)) > +1 I think :as should be mutually exclusive with :only (and friends). -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: *features*-var

2009-02-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
range of versions) of Clojure should be sufficient to ensure that the code is run against a compatible version of Clojure. For now I assume that means SVN revision numbers until we get to 1.0 -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: alternate syntax

2009-02-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
ader" when you say "preprocessor"? :) > > No. This would be a translation step before the code is fed to the > current Clojure reader. > This sounds to me like a better fit for an editor plugin (that would add parentheses as you type based on indentation, and optionally

Re: Alternatives to contains?

2009-01-29 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Dan Larkin wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Cosmin Stejerean wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Paul Mooser wrote: > >> >> I know this has been discussed on the list before to some extent, but >> does

Re: Alternatives to contains?

2009-01-29 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
; collection has a value for that key, I think the name would ideally > express that, like: > > contains-key? > has-key? > maps? > I would prefer has-key? for checking if a key is in a map and contains? for checking if an element is in a collection. -- Cosmin Stejerean http:

Re: New functions and possible bugs

2009-01-28 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
valent vector (and any vector as an equivalent list) I can imagine this making sense. user=> (apply list [1 2 1]) (1 2 1) user=> (apply vector '(1 2 1)) [1 2 1] But I don't see how this would ever apply to sets or maps so I don't see why empty sets and maps should be an

Re: dispatch macros that are new to me

2009-01-27 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
;t > understand "println". > #!/path/to/an/executable/but/not/a/shell/script You can't have your #! line point to another file with a #! line in it. (Well, you can but it won't do what you want). -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~--

Re: "immigrate" function for namespaces

2009-01-26 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:48 PM, James Reeves wrote: > > On Jan 26, 10:29 pm, Cosmin Stejerean wrote: > > Can you help me understand the difference between this and use (or :use > in > > ns)? > > use is internal to the current namespace. You can use other namespaces &g

Re: "immigrate" function for namespaces

2009-01-26 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
up a set of specific libraries into a > more general package, so your users don't have to type so much if they > just want the defaults. > > - James Can you help me understand the difference between this and use (or :use in ns)? -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~--

Re: Support for disabling forms (reader macro similar to CL's #-(and))

2009-01-26 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Rich Hickey wrote: > > > > On Jan 26, 11:15 am, Cosmin Stejerean wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Rich Hickey > wrote: > > > > > On Jan 25, 4:10 pm, Laurent PETIT wrote: > > > > #- makes s

Re: Support for disabling forms (reader macro similar to CL's #-(and))

2009-01-26 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
> > > Yes, the issues are: > > #; is bad for editors > > #- would be incompatible with CL's #-, and couldn't be upgraded to > compatibility without breakage. > > I'm not sure the latter is a big deal, as #-test ... in CL is just an > alter

Re: Proposal: "smarter" set operations that take size into account for speed

2009-01-23 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
om what I've seen in the past clojure-contrib is the place for functions like the fast set operations discussed here. This gives people a chance to use them and identify any problems, etc before being considered for a move into clojure core. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~

Re: doall vs. dorun

2009-01-20 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
> > Use dorun when you want to do something purely for the side effects. If you don't need what doall would return then you can use dorun instead to clearly indicate your intent. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You recei

Re: Mysterious performance anomalies

2009-01-20 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
oblem, and I hope future versions of the JVM will address it but I don't think it's a huge problem. There are plenty of languages that also don't support TCO and there are usually ways to work around them. Clojure already provides two such options, recur and

Re: Can't get clojure or clojure.contrib via SVN over https

2009-01-14 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
urce code from one of the unofficial mirrors, like http://*github*.com/kevinoneill/* clojure* -- Cosmin Stejerean http://offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To pos

Re: Very noob file reading and printing question

2009-01-06 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
e line > format and save it for a legacy app) > Well, if you just want to print to standard out you could use print or println. Apparently there's also with-out-file which I'm assuming temporarily binds *out* so all output goes to a file. That might be the simplest way to do what

Re: quote on side effects

2009-01-05 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
should avoid side effects in most of your functions, but > at least one of them needs to have a side effect for most > applications. > > Does anyone recall who said something like that? > I remember reading something very similar, most likely on Hacker News < http://news.ycombinator

Re: Circular Require Change?

2008-12-19 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: > > Thanks Rich! I'll keep an eye on the defect(shame there isn't a watch > feature on google code). Other than this little minor annoyance, the > new AOT changes are working great. Thanks for all the work, I'm > really enjoying Clojure. >

Re: python style triple-double-quotes

2008-12-13 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
perfect use-case for triple quoted strings. +1 on including something similar in Clojure. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://www.offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to

Re: Learning Clojure

2008-12-10 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
> > Another issue I had is we don't have a good blanket term for Vars, > > Refs, Agents, and Atoms. > > Speaking of these, your article mentions and describes only Var, Ref and > Agent in your "Reference Types" section. > "The text is also a bit out of date a

Re: quit

2008-12-02 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
here's what happens when someone new to Python tries to exit the interactive console. >>> quit Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit >>> quit() -- Cosmin Stejerean http://www.offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message be

Re: i'm having a lot of trouble dealing with events.

2008-11-20 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
. What does the "#^" part do? > See http://clojure.org/java_interop#toc34 -- Cosmin Stejerean http://www.offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to t

Re: i'm having a lot of trouble dealing with events.

2008-11-20 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
. What does the "#^" part do? > See http://clojure.org/java_interop#toc34 -- Cosmin Stejerean http://www.offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to t

Re: Working combination of .emacs, Aquamacs, swank-clojure, clojure-mode?

2008-11-17 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Raffael Cavallaro < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 17, 11:55 pm, "Cosmin Stejerean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Most of these projects change on a daily basis and so far I've never run > > in

Re: Working combination of .emacs, Aquamacs, swank-clojure, clojure-mode?

2008-11-17 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
rsion (and updating regularly) is a good thing, I would recommend using the latest version to any newcomer and posting questions here including detailed explanation of what was tried and what happened. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://www.offbytwo.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

Re: Back on max again...

2008-11-04 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 4, 2:56 am, "Christian Vest Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Mark H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > &g

Re: Back on max again...

2008-11-03 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Mark H. wrote: > > On Nov 3, 5:39 pm, "Paul Stadig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Could/Should the max function be modified to work against the >> Comparable interface instead of expecting its arguments to be >> numbers? >> >> I'm working with a sequence of strings