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A list of commonly asked questions, design decisions, reasons why Clojure is the way it is as they were answered directly by Rich (even when from many years ago, those answers are pretty much valid today!). Feel free to point friends and colleagues here next time they ask (again). Answers are pasted verbatim (I've made small adjustments for readibility, but never changed a sentence) from mailing lists, articles, chats.

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t0xicCode

This started out as a fork of the progress bar class which I first hosted on ActiveState Code.

It builds a text progress bar and displays it with the draw() method.

The methods are showcased below:

from progressBar import progressBar

# Initiates the progessBar
prog = progressBar(maxValue = 50)

freakhill

*~
.*
*.dat
*.eld
.smex-items
.emacs_workgroups_*
tmp*
places
ede-projects.*
ac-dict/

phi-gamma

documentdata                  = documentdata or { }
documentdata.color_ligatures  = { }
local color_ligatures         = documentdata.color_ligatures

color_ligatures.color         = { r = 0xee/255,
                                  g = 0x31/255,
                                  b = 0x09/255, }

local stringformat            = string.format

vermiculus

\documentclass{report}
\makeatletter
\def\lcr@@set#1{\lcr@@@set{#1}}
\long\def\lcr@@@set#1#2{%
  \expandafter\def\csname lcr@#1\endcsname{#2}}
\def\lcr@@get#1{\csname lcr@#1\endcsname}
\def\lcr@@new@format#1#2{%
  \expandafter\def\csname #1Format\endcsname{#2}
  \expandafter\def\csname #1\endcsname##1{%
    \begingroup\csname #1Format\endcsname##1\endgroup}}

joehillen

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
            Only this and nothing more.”

jleechpe

(defun extract-information (sym)
  (if (fboundp sym)
      (cons 'function (or (help-split-fundoc (documentation sym) sym)
                          (documentation sym)))
    (cons 'variable (documentation-property sym 'variable-documentation))))

(defun def-to-org-headline (sym &optional level)
  (let* ((toplevel (or level 1))
         (info (extract-information sym))
         (name (format "%s" sym))