4:21 jgracin: guys, I have a Java class whose ctor is: public Conf(String... args). How can I call this from Clojure? The problem is the argument, which is an array of Strings.
15:41 hi! I'm trying (meta vector), (meta clojure/vector), (meta 'clojure/test), (meta test) and other stuff in the HEAD and I'm getting nil's. How do I get the metadata?
15:42 rhickey: (meta (var vector)) or ^#'vector
15:43 jgracin: Oh, of course. Vars have meta-data. Thanks!
15:44 rhickey: sure
16:06 Chouser: Thanks for the nice article on your blog
16:07 http://
16:08 Chouser: rhickey: heh. sure! how'd you find that?
16:08 oh, I bet a standing Google search for "clojure".
16:08 rhickey: yup
16:11 Chouser: well, you're quite welcome, though I'm not sure it's worth much. I'm not exactly an opinion leader. :-)
16:11 I should be, but I'm not.
16:14 jgracin: Chouser: would you mind if I "reddit"-ed your blog? :-)
16:14 I think Clojure needs advertising now.
16:15 Chouser: jgracin: I can't think of why I'd mind, so go right ahead.
16:16 any obvious factual errors I should fix first? rhickey?
16:17 rhickey: no, I thought it was ok
16:21 jgracin: done.
16:22 rhickey: new release today, so good timing. Lots of updated docs on the site
16:25 Chouser: The "lisp worth talking about" from reddit a couple months ago is a better article. oh well.
16:27 jgracin: rhickey: yeah. I am amazed how things in and around Clojure keep fitting perfectly.
16:27 you've struck gold. :-)
16:28 rhickey: :)
16:31 Chouser: I seem to pretty often want (filter (fn [x] x) (map A B)) for various A and B. Is there a better way to do that?
16:32 rhickey: identity == (fn [x] x)
16:39 * Chouser inserts (defn filtermap [f s] (filter identity (map f s)))
17:45 Chouser: any handy way to go from '((1 2) (3 4) (5 6)) to '((1 3 5) (2 4 6)) ?
17:45 some languages call this "zip"
17:52 (defn zip [& args] (if (first args) (cons (map first args) (apply zip (map rest args))) nil))
17:58 That's not what I wanted. This is closer: (defn zip [seq] (if (first seq) (cons (map first seq) (zip (map rest seq))) nil))
18:05 rhickey: neat. I think going that direction it's unzip
18:06 hmmm, maybe they're the same once they are variadic...
18:07 Chouser: I have a tail-recursive version, but it has to call reverse at the end. Is that any better?
18:08 rhickey: I don't think there's anything wrong with the map version
18:10 Chouser: oh, this one still uses map, but it uses recur instead of creating a stack as deep as (count (first seq))
18:13 rhickey: (def zip (partial apply map list))
18:13 Chouser: http://
18:13 whoa, what?
18:13 rhickey: try it
18:14 Chouser: I don't have partial. Is my clojure too old?
18:14 rhickey: yes, was appl then
18:15 Chouser: again, "whoa".
18:15 Ok, I need to get food, but I'll have to look at that def.
18:24 rhickey: it's lazy: (take 5 (zip (list (iterate inc 1) (iterate inc 2) (iterate inc 3))))
18:24 ((1 2 3) (2 3 4) (3 4 5) (4 5 6) (5 6 7))
19:01 Chouser: I'm still not fully there. I don't yet understand what apply is doing with the 3rd arg.
19:17 rhickey: you mean mapping the list function?
19:18 user=> (map list [1 2 3] [4 5 6] [7 8 9])
19:18 ((1 4 7) (2 5 8) (3 6 9))
19:19 which is almost what you want, but your lists are in a sequence
19:19 user=> (apply map list [[1 2 3] [4 5 6] [7 8 9]])
19:19 ((1 4 7) (2 5 8) (3 6 9))
19:47 Chouser: oh, it's the multiple sequences to map that's doing it.
19:54 the multiple args to apply was throwing me as well, though.
19:56 I didn't realize (apply + 1 2 '(3 4)) was like (apply + (list* 1 2 '(3 4)))
20:00 rhickey: right
20:23 Chouser: so between multi-param apply and multi-seq map, one hardly needs zip at all.
20:25 rhickey: right
23:11 Chouser: It's even better than that. I wanted zip so I could do this: (def prod (map (fn [seq] (apply * seq)) (zip fracs)))
23:12 But of course I get the same result with: (def prod (apply map * fracs))
23:12 rhickey: fun
23:21 Chouser: any way to get the denominator of a RatioNum?
23:23 rhickey: for now: (. 22/7 denominator)
23:34 Chouser: thanks
23:36 albino: did the proggit article bring some newbies to the channel today?