It is obvious to me now that I am still very much a newbie to Clojure!
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Colin Yates wrote:
> +1 to pipe-lines of immutable data transformations. That was the biggest
> paradigm shift for me coming to FP and made the world a much better place.
>
> On 2 Oct 2015, at
+1 to pipe-lines of immutable data transformations. That was the biggest
paradigm shift for me coming to FP and made the world a much better place.
> On 2 Oct 2015, at 16:41, Gary Trakhman wrote:
>
> There are a lot of strategies to deal with the coupling of reuse. I find
> that using pure fu
There are a lot of strategies to deal with the coupling of reuse. I find
that using pure functions makes it easy to split off responsibilities after
the fact and add multiple entry points (the hard thing becomes naming those
functions). Eventually a new 'essence' of the abstraction will show itse
It might just be me, but I also find the cost of the explicit coupling that is
re-use is often far more expensive than any saving offered by re-use of a bunch
of text. I also find this _more_ expensive in Clojure than Java as refactoring
in Java was pretty robust (IntelliJ is incredibly powerful
Refactoring for reuse is a kind of early optimization? Agreed! Generally
for me it waits until the second or third rewrite, as by then I have a bit
of an idea about where I am headed with the code.
OTOH, I finally realized that when I don't know where I am going with
something, keeping the logic i
My 1.5 cents:
- code re-use is easier in FP because of the common abstractions - sequences
etc.
- code re-use is easier in FP because of the separation of state and functions
- knowledge learned from creating a piece of code is far more likely to be
re-used than the code itself
- refactoring
Reuse is a matter of perspective.
During the OO marketing blitz of the 90's, promise of re-use (C++, etc etc)
convinced many to jump in the pool. So today there is a tremendous amount
of abstract and deep hierarchies build with the notions that: "Someday this
may be useful to specialize from th
