is there a way to use a var inside a regex? For example (re-matches #”my-var.*” a-string) ??

nvm

@roberto: Interested to know your use case and the solution, would you like to share?

yeah, of course. I used re-pattern:

(let [title “Meet.*”
         phrase “Meet & Greet"]
   (-> title re-pattern (re-matches phrase)))

@roberto: have done similar myself.

cool

About 13:30 into http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-To-Compute , Mr. Sussman shows

((+ (square sin) (square cos)) 2.5)
#| 1. |#

(+ ((comp square sin) 2.5) ((comp square cos) 2.5))

(def sin #(Math/sin %)) (def cos #(Math/cos %)) (defn square [x] (* x x))

you could also (apply + ((juxt (comp square sin) (comp square cos)) 2.5))

do you guys like hiccup or selmer more for templating in web development?

hicciup looks/feels clojuric ← a real word

selmer is nice for us coming from django or jinja2 backgrounds lol

chadhs: I’ve personally had nothing but trouble with those string templating things, I’d definitely recommend hiccup

@jfntn: what do you mean by string templating?

string replacement in selmer that happens?

yeah and all the logic that you can use in the templates

that’s a weird level of indirection that can be very confusing, in hiccup it’s just code sptitting out data there is basically no learning curve

interesting

hiccup is more idiomatic to clojure would you say?

sure

If you don’t have to sell it to web-designers it’s definitely a more fluent option

haha

gotcha

I sold Hiccup to designers, and they were quite taken with it. Especially when they learnt how to abstract things out into components etc

Thanks @alexmiller ! juxt was my missing piece. … and I should have included the sin, cos and square defs in my question