Comments on: Clojure/Java Interop http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/781 Bad running advice, boring family stuff, and technology few find interesting Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:48:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alec Jacobson http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/781/comment-page-1#comment-77012 Alec Jacobson Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:28:53 +0000 http://nathanpowell.org/blog/?p=781#comment-77012 Sorry this is a comment to an old post (to which I couldn't comment) http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/585 . Anyway, I think you have a typo: array = [foo, bar, baz] puts array[rand(a.size)] should read: array = [foo, bar, baz] puts array[rand(array.size)] Sorry this is a comment to an old post (to which I couldn’t comment) http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/585 .
Anyway, I think you have a typo:

array = [foo, bar, baz]
puts array[rand(a.size)]

should read:

array = [foo, bar, baz]
puts array[rand(array.size)]

]]> By: David Whittington http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/781/comment-page-1#comment-76762 David Whittington Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:22:05 +0000 http://nathanpowell.org/blog/?p=781#comment-76762 The syntax is actually fairly old (it's a Lisp after all), and there's a reason it's like that. Clojure programs are Clojure data structures. This means they can be manipulated at runtime using all the same tools you use to manipulate any other Clojure data structure. This allows syntactic abstract. For an example of why this is cool check out this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/pcalcado/lisp-macros-in-20-minutes-featuring-clojure-presentation The syntax is actually fairly old (it’s a Lisp after all), and there’s a reason it’s like that. Clojure programs are Clojure data structures. This means they can be manipulated at runtime using all the same tools you use to manipulate any other Clojure data structure. This allows syntactic abstract. For an example of why this is cool check out this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/pcalcado/lisp-macros-in-20-minutes-featuring-clojure-presentation

]]> By: rhigdon http://nathanpowell.org/blog/archives/781/comment-page-1#comment-76749 rhigdon Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:25:39 +0000 http://nathanpowell.org/blog/?p=781#comment-76749 This is a really cool post nate! I haven't seen cloJure in action before seeing this. It is however frustrating that every new language has a new weird syntax. I don't really care about the syntax, I care about the speed. I think most Java programmers know what they don't like about the language syntax so why not just improve on those points?! Anyway I want to see rewrites after you finish the book! :{ This is a really cool post nate! I haven’t seen cloJure in action before seeing this.

It is however frustrating that every new language has a new weird syntax. I don’t really care about the syntax, I care about the speed. I think most Java programmers know what they don’t like about the language syntax so why not just improve on those points?!

Anyway I want to see rewrites after you finish the book! :{

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