Rich Hickey: extensible data notation

Re:Rich Hickey: extensible data notation by andrewflnr on Friday September 07, 2012 @02:34AM (#4487890)

I kind of like the tagging syntax. It almost seems like they should really be lists with the first tag in function position, but I don't know think that would interop with real Clojure. I tried to come up with something similar, but somehow couldn't generalize to tagging any random object. When in doubt, generalize...

PS: I'm just learning Clojure.

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Re:Rich Hickey: extensible data notation by threedaymonk on Saturday September 08, 2012 @05:58AM (#4492683)

If you mean something like this, it would interoperate just fine:

    (list 1 2 3)
    (vector 1 2 3)
    (hash-set :a :b :c)
    (hash-map :a 1 :b 2)

I suspect that typing hash-map all over the place might get old fast, though.

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Re:Rich Hickey: extensible data notation by andrewflnr on Saturday September 08, 2012 @08:05PM (#4494467)

I mean `(#myapp/person {:first "Fred" :last "Mertz"})' or `(#seconds 330)'. In this case it's probably the extra parentheses that get old fast. Even so, having semantically connected items not be stuck together makes me a bit queasy.

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