It's not really intended as an "evangelist" post. It's just describing some details that makes a big difference to me in my day-to-day work. I guess it's more of a "hey, fellow Clojure programmer, don't you agree that these details really put the icing on the cake?" kind of post.
Thanks, I was just affraid I'd missed some kind of builtin macro or convention. At one point I thought that -> would rewrite function #"\*$" to decorate them with apply ... paranoid noobies you know.
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Agreed. This did nothing to make me really excited about Clojure or Lisp. A demonstration of differential was a better example than this.
It's not really intended as an "evangelist" post. It's just describing some details that makes a big difference to me in my day-to-day work. I guess it's more of a "hey, fellow Clojure programmer, don't you agree that these details really put the icing on the cake?" kind of post.
Maybe the other post I posted the same day would give newcomers a better impression of what using Clojure is like in practice (lots more code, more in-depth): http://cjohansen.no/building-static-sites-in-clojure-with-st...
The 'to die for' is too strong.
ps: what is the min* function ? can't find anything on google
It's an expression of enthusiasm, don't take it so seriously.
min* is like min but takes a list, it's not built in. Yes, I know about apply, I still prefer min* to (apply min) in certain cases.
Thanks, I was just affraid I'd missed some kind of builtin macro or convention. At one point I thought that -> would rewrite function #"\*$" to decorate them with apply ... paranoid noobies you know.
ps: you're a very enthusiastic person ;)
One thing that will help a lot: type (source f) to see the source code for a function or macro. Also (doc f) for documentation.
thanks for writing it. i have yet to grok or embrace Lisp-family languages, but your post was still fun to read.