Clojure in Python

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19 points·mcav··6 comments

I wonder if the increasing number of projects that use the "Clojure" name to market themselves (really having little in common with Clojure) is reason for worry or a sign of Clojure's success?

I did not see a link for the code.

Or understand what it does.

I learned yesterday that a closure is a function that's saved in a variable with out being effected by the context its run in, just the context it was saved in.

This actually refers to the programming language called clojure, not the concept of closure.

Browsing the framegen site and trying to get more info was a frustrating experience. No About Page, no profile, no repositories, no name. There's also an announcement of a plan to open source a project, that apparently the author never followed through with.

http://framegen.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/open-sourcing-gwt-c...

I should have known. The post said "lightweight version of Clojure". It's not a lightweight version of Clojure, it's a partial implementation of Clojure. It's an important distinction.

I implemented something along these lines many years ago: http://github.com/cageface/lython

It was a fun hack but it just seemed lispishness is really something you want to build in as close to the ground up as possible. Still, it is cool that python makes it so easy to work directly with its AST.

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