elbenshira

> Let’s be clear about what this means: it gives them access to the corporate bond market. What they’re lobbying for is that pension funds, life insurance, etc., can take exposure to these companies. Suddenly the everyman, your mom and dad, have significant exposure to these companies and their circular financing deals without even knowing it. This is disgusting.

What's the problem? Fund managers—who are in a position to understand the risks more than your everyday investor—can decide if they want buy these bonds or not, just like any other public corporate bond.

For some reason I was thinking about Bob two days ago, ten years since I last interacted with him. I was just an intern at Square and he had just joined as CTO. But I remember how patient and inquisitive he was with me. Rest in peace, Bob.

In this case, you think of `connectWords` as a function that takes two arguments. But since it is curried, you can also do this:

    let prefix = connectWords "Hello "
        world  = prefix "world"
        bob    = prefix "bob"
    in ...

`world` is "Hello world", and `bob` is "Hello bob". That is the power of currying. A maybe more useful example is specifying the mapping function in `List.map` without supplying the list to map over. This allows you to use the same map with multiple lists.

In the article, I mention that linters for dynamic langs are crippled. Of course I use them when writing Ruby. But can any of these tools tell me:

  - When two equivalent anonymous functions can be extracted out?
  - When a library method already exists for an expression?
  - When you fail to match every possible result in a case statement?

A note on Typed Clojure: Ambrose is doing excellent work with it, and I'm excited to see it develop.

But I wished there was a bigger push from the top, from Rich himself, on "first-classing" typed Clojure. Aim for 100% annotation coverage for the most popular libraries. Start with core (maybe it already is? I haven't kept up) and ring, then move outwards from there.

Library writers will be more motivated to add annotations if the big libraries are doing it.

Yes, I did miss the ring spec. But as a beginner to ring, I'm not sure how I was suppose to know that such a document exist.

For the most part, Ring is well-documented. But, as you noted, human-typed doc strings go only so far. I applaud the writers of ring in their discipline, but certainly we can do better than depending on human discipline.

You even noted, I picked "less well-documented libraries." I didn't pick them because they were not well-documented—I picked them because I'm using them!

If I understand correctly, the ClojureScript compiler was written in Clojure (that is, you had to run the JVM to run the compiler), which spat out JS code and then compiled by Google Closure.

Would you be able to explain, at a high level, how ClojureScript bootstrapped itself, and how Google Closure comes into play?

This is an acceptable description.

I missed an opportunity here.