Re: Where did the idea of metadata come from?

2012-11-12 Thread Ken Causey
On 11/12/2012 03:01 PM, JvJ wrote: Metadata is a really useful feature, and it's been helping me a lot. It seems like a flash of genius on the part of Mr. Hickey. I'm wondering if similar concepts exist in other programming languages that inspired it, or if it's unique to Clojure. Just a matter o

Re: interests in Clojure internals

2012-06-08 Thread Ken Causey
t; BTW, how can I view the second link (ending with .pamphlet) in a browser? I > tried it in Chrome but it just gave me a plain text without any format. > > 在 2012年6月7日星期四UTC+8下午8时55分07秒,Ken Causey写道: >> >> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:41 AM, jaime wrote: >> > Hello

Re: interests in Clojure internals

2012-06-07 Thread Ken Causey
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:41 AM, jaime wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I really have interests in internals of Cojure. I'm not talking about > massive details of its implementation but rather some kind of > overview/architecture of the language itself. I also know that reading > source code is one of

Re: Macros to help writing closures?

2012-04-22 Thread Ken Causey
Regarding learning about macros: I suspect that most within the community are relying on existing knowledge of writing macros in Common Lisp or relying on documentation for Common Lisp. I highly recommend reading Paul Graham's _On Lisp_. http://paulgraham.com/onlisp.html Ken On Sun, Apr 22, 20