Re: CCW bug [SEVERE]

2014-10-28 Thread Dan Cross
Can we please stop feeding the troll? Thanks. -- 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 u

Re: Why I'm giving Clojure a try

2014-04-16 Thread Dan Cross
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Massimiliano Tomassoli wrote: > Thank you both for the warm welcome! > Right now I'm reading "Clojure for the Brave and True". I'm not new to > functional programming, but I'm not familiar with LISPy languages. > I can see the value of having such a regular synta

Re: let-while

2014-03-05 Thread Dan Cross
(And for context, here is Christophe's 'while-let' from 2009): (defmacro while-let "Makes it easy to continue processing an expression as long as it is true" [binding & forms] `(loop [] (when-let ~binding ~@forms (recur On Wed, Mar

Re: let-while

2014-03-05 Thread Dan Cross
On Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:42:28 PM UTC-4, mbrodersen wrote: > It would be great to have while-let in contrib. Then I don't have to > maintain let-while myself :-) I'm reviving this ancient thread because of core.async. This seems like just the thing for the common pattern of looping over

Re: Code layout

2013-12-10 Thread Dan Cross
Why not just, (reduce + (filter even? nuns)) ? That's a simple enough form I wouldn't bother with the line breaks. On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Plínio Balduino wrote: > Hi there > > What is the ideal way to format Clojure code? I'm following Batsov's Style > Guide but, in some moments, it

Re: Do you like the Clojure syntax?

2013-08-14 Thread Dan Cross
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Chris Ford wrote: > Two obviously. It's the only compromise between those who want everything > to be a prime number, and those who want everything to be a power of two. > I used to sometimes use 3 spaces, just to be a contrarian. Then I learned the error of my

Re: #|| notation for the Clojure reader

2013-07-10 Thread Dan Cross
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Pierre Allix wrote: > [snip] > b) there was a proposal to implement a reader macro with a pipe notation ( e.g. > #|symbol with whitespace|) as in Common Lisp. > This would allow to read back symbols which don't follow the naming rules. > Just a nit: this isn't ex

Re: ANN Introducing Clochure: a better Clojure

2013-04-01 Thread Dan Cross
Well played. On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Michael Klishin < michael.s.klis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Introducing Clochure: a better Clojure. > > Quoting project's README: > > Clochure (http://clochure.org) is an educated attempt to solve Clojure's > number one problem and first obstacle that pu

Re: docstrings of if-let and when-let incorrect

2012-05-16 Thread Dan Cross
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Aaron Cohen wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Walter Tetzner > wrote: >> To make the bindings work like let, where later bindings can see previous >> bindings, I think the most natural way to do it is to have the bindings >> behave like the maybe monad. >

Re: docstrings of if-let and when-let incorrect

2012-05-15 Thread Dan Cross
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Walter Tetzner wrote: > On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 3:41:58 PM UTC-4, Dan Cross wrote: >> My own personal opinion is that it makes sense in combination with 'and', >> but others may feel differently.  E.g., >> >>     (when-let [a

Re: docstrings of if-let and when-let incorrect

2012-05-15 Thread Dan Cross
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Aaron Cohen wrote: > Does the principle of least surprise suggest that multiple bindings be > combined with AND or OR? My own personal opinion is that it makes sense in combination with 'and', but others may feel differently. E.g., (when-let [a (allocate-t

Re: a library I'm working on for generating PDFs from Clojure

2012-04-23 Thread Dan Cross
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 3:33 AM, David Jagoe wrote: > On 21 April 2012 14:41, Dan Cross wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:20 AM, David Jagoe wrote: >> > Can anybody tell me whether wkhtmltopdf or flying-saucer deal with >> > pagination properly? I've been tem

Re: a library I'm working on for generating PDFs from Clojure

2012-04-21 Thread Dan Cross
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:20 AM, David Jagoe wrote: > Can anybody tell me whether wkhtmltopdf or flying-saucer deal with > pagination properly? I've been templating TeX to get properly laid out > tables broken over multiple pages. But of course I'd much rather just > generate the PDFs from the HTM