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Hi, I noticed that the docstrings for the start and stop functions appear after the function arguments, like:
(defn start [e] "REPL...
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The code for the function game is defined with the argument order [word, player]:
(defn game
[word player]
...)
This [word player] ar...
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On page 186 (last page of chapter 7) it says “The first thing we need to do is import (not use or require) our MidiNote protocol from the...
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@alexmiller
On page 206 to 207, my copy of Programming Clojure, Third Edition asserts the following:
assert tests an expression and ra...
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Hi @alexmiller
I’ve been following along through PC 3rd, and hit a bump on page 122 - the ‘name’ format for the spec seems incorrect. I ...
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“If you need to do arbitrary-precision, floating-point math, append M to a number to
create a BigDecimal literal”
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The two arguments of game should swap positions. In the text:
(game random-player "hello")
Should be:
(game "hello"...
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The output of below example repeat the code.
(to-array ["Easier" "array" "creation"])
-> (to-array [&qu...
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Original text: “and invoking unctions.”
Should be: “and invoking functions.”
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Programming Clojure, Third Edition: missing the parameter `x` in the definition of `big?` (page 132)
The definition of big? in the book is (defn big? [ ] (> x 100)). I got below error in clj REPL:
user=> (defn big? [ ] (> x 100)...
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Good day,
My name is Vadym and currently, I’m reading your book “Programming Clojure, Third Edition”.
I believe I found an example in y...
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The output of below example repeat the code.
(to-array ["Easier" "array" "creation"])
-> (to-array [&qu...
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Programming Clojure, Third Edition: missing the parameter `x` in the definition of `big?` (page 132)
The definition of big? in the book is (defn big? [ ] (> x 100)). I got below error in clj REPL:
user=> (defn big? [ ] (> x 100)...
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Original text: “and invoking unctions.”
Should be: “and invoking functions.”
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The two arguments of game should swap positions. In the text:
(game random-player "hello")
Should be:
(game "hello"...
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“If you need to do arbitrary-precision, floating-point math, append M to a number to
create a BigDecimal literal”
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On page 186 (last page of chapter 7) it says “The first thing we need to do is import (not use or require) our MidiNote protocol from the...
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The code for the function game is defined with the argument order [word, player]:
(defn game
[word player]
...)
This [word player] ar...
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Hi, I noticed that the docstrings for the start and stop functions appear after the function arguments, like:
(defn start [e] "REPL...
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Hi @alexmiller
I’ve been following along through PC 3rd, and hit a bump on page 122 - the ‘name’ format for the spec seems incorrect. I ...
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@alexmiller
On page 206 to 207, my copy of Programming Clojure, Third Edition asserts the following:
assert tests an expression and ra...
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Drowning in unnecessary complexity, unmanaged state, and tangles of spaghetti code? Clojure cuts through complexity by providing a set of...
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Programming Clojure, Third Edition (page 111)
Backward description of when to use reduce and into, it should be:
Reduce: when the outp...
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