2010/1/16 Simon Brooke :
> general case of a cyclic directed graph. Surely there must be some
> clean idiomatic way of creating a cyclic graph?
I experimented with something very similar when I first encountered Clojure:
http://clojure.googlegroups.com/web/funmud.clj
And ended up representing the
On 15 Jan, 17:40, Laurent PETIT wrote:
> Simon,
>
> To be very clear, and incite you to watch all those videos and read
> all this material:
>
> One of the key motivations (if not the primary) of Rich writing
> clojure has been constructing a language which would offer built-in
> semantics to mana
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:58 AM, ataggart wrote:
> And a neat series showing how games which look imperative can be bent
> to be (mostly) functional:
> http://prog21.dadgum.com/23.html
i find it interesting that there are so many drastically different
approaches cf. http://world.cs.brown.edu/
si
Simon,
To be very clear, and incite you to watch all those videos and read
all this material:
One of the key motivations (if not the primary) of Rich writing
clojure has been constructing a language which would offer built-in
semantics to manage state change over time.
So you're really in the ri
Also check out Rich's video covering concurrency, and in particular
his Ants program:
http://blip.tv/file/812787
For more on state stuff:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey
And a neat series showing how games which look imperative can be bent
to be (mostly) functional
Hi,
On Jan 15, 4:25 pm, Simon Brooke wrote:
> Right, I'm trying to get my head around the consequences of
> Opinions?
You have to distinguish between identity and state.
Disclaimer: I have no clue whatsoever about game design.
The different rooms are identities, the different players are
iden
On Jan 15, 7:25 am, Simon Brooke wrote:
> So, there seem to be four possibilities
>
> (1) I've chosen the wrong language for the problem, or vice versa;
> (2) There is some idiomatic means of managing mutable state which I've
> missed;
> (3) The right solution is to create a hybrid system using
Right, I'm trying to get my head around the consequences of
immutability for the sort of programming practices I'm used to, and
how I change the way I do things to fit in with it. Initially I
thought 'well, immutability just means you can't use rplaca and
rplacd, and I've very rarely used either so
