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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

(loop)

"Clojure actually uses fewer parentheses to call java code than java code does."

podcast: http://podcasts.pragprog.com/2008-12/stuart-halloway-on-programming-clojure.mp3

Says this may be controversial to lisp programmers. Stuart obviously
has not seen the loop macro. ;-/

http://www.ai.sri.com/pkarp/loop.html

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I know you were joking, but he should be aware of it--he wrote a useful series of articles porting PCL (PCL has a whole chapter dedicated to the loop macro) to Clojure:

http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/9/16/pcl-clojure

It ought to help those familiar with CL grok Clojure.

12/03/2008 9:59 AM
Unknown said...

:-) The potential issue is not paren reduction, but the number of Clojure literal forms.

I don't think it will really be controversial, just take a little acclimatization.

Cheers,
Stu

12/06/2008 10:43 AM

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