Re: Best Practice on loading namespaces

2015-07-24 Thread Colin Yates
Hi Keegan. I’m not sure I would call them abstractions (as they are pretty opaque), I would say they are more about one-thing-to-do-one-thing :-). I do agree that the level of boilerplate code (which I think is actually what you are referring to) has echoes of Enterprise Java. I wouldn’t be at

Re: Best Practice on loading namespaces

2015-07-23 Thread Michael Blume
This is component, all of it: https://github.com/stuartsierra/component/blob/master/src/com/stuartsierra/component.clj -- that's well below the size threshold where I'm comfortable saying "if someone else is maintaining it, that's one less thing for me to do; if they ever stop, this'll become part

Re: Best Practice on loading namespaces

2015-07-23 Thread keegan myers
It's an interesting approach, the extra layers of abstraction feel reminiscent of my days with enterprise java. As far as components go I think I might be able to achieve a similar effect using prismatic/plumbing graphs. The lazy compile option for graphs may be beneficial when there are a ver

Re: Best Practice on loading namespaces

2015-07-22 Thread Colin Yates
Ah, one of the eternal questions, so there isn’t really a ‘do this’ answer. My experience: [multi-methods/protocols] You need to include the namespace they are compiled in for those methods to take effect and because they are defn’d at the root you cannot provide collaborators easily. You cann

Best Practice on loading namespaces

2015-07-22 Thread keegan myers
I've begun building a rather complex web application in Clojure/ClojureScript. After some evaluation I decided that CQRS + event sourcing would fit the requirements well. As such I have a bunch of aggregates (models) each in their own namespace that contain all the applicable record definitions