Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-18 Thread pmbauer
>> Sorry; I don't really care for web forums much. I think mailing lists > >> and Usenet are much to be preferred. > > > > Please do use Manning's forum for this. > > Actually, I can't. My copy is borrowed, for now, rather than my own, > so I don't have an account there. > Actually, you can. You

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-18 Thread Ken Wesson
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Aaron Bedra wrote: > On 05/17/2011 09:21 PM, Ken Wesson wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:57 PM, pmbauer >>  wrote: >>> >>> Manning's forum would be a better home for errata than the Clojure >>> mailing >>> list. >>> http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-17 Thread Aaron Bedra
On 05/17/2011 09:21 PM, Ken Wesson wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:57 PM, pmbauer wrote: Manning's forum would be a better home for errata than the Clojure mailing list. http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=624 Sorry; I don't really care for web forums much. I think mailing lists

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-17 Thread Ken Wesson
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:57 PM, pmbauer wrote: > Manning's forum would be a better home for errata than the Clojure mailing > list. > http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=624 Sorry; I don't really care for web forums much. I think mailing lists and Usenet are much to be preferred.

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-17 Thread Ken Wesson
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Alan wrote: > On May 17, 4:35 am, Ken Wesson wrote: >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Fogus wrote: >> > Hi Ken, >> >> > Thanks for this.  I agree that a different name would be much more >> > clear. >> >> Here's one from chapter 7. Section 7.1.2, near the end,

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-17 Thread pmbauer
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Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-17 Thread Alan
On May 17, 4:35 am, Ken Wesson wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Fogus wrote: > > Hi Ken, > > > Thanks for this.  I agree that a different name would be much more > > clear. > > Here's one from chapter 7. Section 7.1.2, near the end, has: > > "Perhaps you see a familiar pattern: we apply

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-17 Thread Ken Wesson
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Fogus wrote: > Hi Ken, > > Thanks for this.  I agree that a different name would be much more > clear. Here's one from chapter 7. Section 7.1.2, near the end, has: "Perhaps you see a familiar pattern: we apply the column-names vector as a function across a set of

Re: Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-16 Thread Fogus
Hi Ken, Thanks for this. I agree that a different name would be much more clear. As a side note, maybe we could use a single thread for JoC related flubs so as not to clog the mailing list on a chapter-by-chapter basis? Another option is to use Manning's forum at http://www.manning-sandbox.com/

Joy of Clojure errata: Chapter 5

2011-05-16 Thread Ken Wesson
In section 5.2.6: "A MapEntry is its own type and has two functions for retrieving its contents: key and val, which do exactly the same thing as (nth my-map 0) and (nth my-map 1), respectively." Er, unclear at best. I think (nth my-map-entry x) would be better. Calling nth on a map throws an exce