Clojurians Log v2

With a try, the body is the “normal” (non-exceptional) path

One could argue that the values of exceptional paths are still part of the contract of the expression. We have a try in order to provide regularity of output. We catch exceptions that we have a reasonable expectation might occur and that we know how to deal with in a reasonable manner.

(try
   (Int32/Parse x)
   (catch FormatException e "Doofus!"))

getJavaClass() is not a type but a type hint, and seems like the hint should be the expected type of the body

That's a useful take for me to keep in mind. In the notes I'm making on type inference in the compiler, I had already made reference to the fact that user-supplied type tags are just hints. I think I'll strengthen that sentiment a bit.

I created an internal support ticket for this. Thanks!

(looks like that's a private jira project, just in case you were hoping to share the work publicly)

Ah yes, I had forgotten about that.

I'm not sure that an ask topic would be useful, but it would be nice to have those filled in without also having to create and manage 50 tickets 🙂

Yeah! An alternative idea would be to delete the description from the parent pom. I'll summarize the current state of artifact descriptions here in a bit.

Ok, whipped up a little babashka script: clojure_artifacts_descs.clj

(ns clojure-artifacts-descs
  (:require [babashka.http-client :as http]
            [cheshire.core :as json]
            [clojure.string :as str])
  (:import (org.jsoup Jsoup)))

(defn- json-parse [s]
  (json/decode s true))

(defn- text [doc sel]
  (when-let [t (some-> (.select doc sel) (first) (.ownText))]
    (when-not (str/blank? t) t)))

(let [summary (->> (http/get "")
                   :body
                   json-parse
                   :response
                   :docs
                   (mapv (fn [{:keys [a latestVersion]}]
                           (let [description (-> (http/get (format ""
                                                                   a latestVersion a latestVersion))
                                                 :body
                                                 Jsoup/parse
                                                 (text "project > description"))]
                             {:artifact-id a :version latestVersion :description description})))
                   (sort-by :artifact-id))
      with-desc (filterv :description summary)
      without-desc (filterv #(nil? (:description %)) summary)]
  (println "=== Artifacts With Descriptions: " (count with-desc))
  (doseq [{:keys [artifact-id version description]} with-desc]
    (println (format "%-35s %-25s %s" artifact-id version description)))
  (println "\n=== Artifacts Without Descriptions: " (count without-desc))
  (doseq [{:keys [artifact-id version]} without-desc]
    (println (format "%-35s %-25s" artifact-id version))))

$ bb clojure_artifacts_descs.clj
=== Artifacts With Descriptions:  48
buildtest                           0.2.6                     Dummy project for build and deployment testing
clojure                             1.12.3                    Clojure core environment and runtime library.
clojure-contrib                     1.1.0                     Clojure user contributions library.
clojure-install                     0.1.21                    Clojure dependency installer
clojurescript                       1.12.42                   ClojureScript compiler and core runtime library.
core.async                          1.9.829-alpha2            Facilities for async programming and communication in Clojure
core.cache                          1.1.234                   Cache library for Clojure.
core.contracts                      0.0.6                     A contracts programming library for Clojure
core.logic                          1.1.0                     A logic/relational programming library for Clojure
core.match                          1.1.0                     Optimized pattern matching and predicate dispatch for Clojure
core.memoize                        1.1.266                   A memoization library for Clojure
core.rrb-vector                     0.2.0                     RRB-Trees for Clojure(Script) -- see Bagwell & Rompf
core.specs.alpha                    0.4.74                    Specs for clojure.core
core.typed                          0.6.0                     An optional type system for Clojure — full system for annotating and type-checking.
core.typed-pom                      0.8.0-alpha2              An optional type system for Clojure
core.typed.analyzer.common          0.8.0-alpha2              A variant of tools.analyzer.
core.typed.analyzer.js              0.8.0-alpha2              A variant of tools.analyzer.js.
core.typed.analyzer.jvm             0.8.0-alpha2              A variant of tools.analyzer.jvm.
core.typed.annotator.jvm            0.8.0-alpha2              Runtime type inference algorithm for core.typed and clojure.spec.
core.typed.checker.js               0.8.0-alpha2              An optional type system for ClojureScript — full system for annotating and type-checking.
core.typed.checker.jvm              0.8.0-alpha2              An optional type system for Clojure — full system for annotating and type-checking.
core.typed.infer                    0.6.0                     Runtime type inference algorithm for core.typed and clojure.spec.
core.typed.lang.jvm                 0.8.0-alpha2              Extensible languages in Clojure, a la Racket's #lang.
core.typed.lib.clojure              0.8.0-alpha2              Type annotations and macros for the base Clojure distribution.
core.typed.lib.core.async           0.8.0-alpha2              Type annotations and macros for core.async.
core.typed.rt                       0.6.0                     An optional type system for Clojure — zero-dependency artifact for annotations only.
core.typed.runtime.jvm              0.8.0-alpha2              An optional type system for Clojure — zero-dependency artifact for annotations only.
core.unify                          0.7.0                     A unification library for Clojure
data.avl                            0.2.0                     Persistent sorted maps and sets with log-time rank queries
data.csv                            1.1.0                     A Clojure library for reading and writing comma separated value (csv) files
data.finger-tree                    0.1.0                     Persistent collections based on 2-3 finger trees.
data.fressian                       1.1.0                     Read/write Fressian from Clojure
data.int-map                        1.3.0                     A map optimized for integer keys
data.json                           2.5.1                     Generating/parsing JSON from/to Clojure data structures
data.xml                            0.2.0-alpha9              Functions to parse XML into lazy sequences and lazy trees and emit these as text
google-closure-library              0.0-20250515-87401eb8     The Google Closure Library is a collection of JavaScript code designed for use with the Google Closure JavaScript Compiler. This non-official distribution was prepared by the ClojureScript team at 
google-closure-library-third-party  0.0-20250515-87401eb8     The Google Closure Library is a collection of JavaScript code designed for use with the Google Closure JavaScript Compiler. This non-official distribution was prepared by the ClojureScript team at  This package contains extensions to the Google Closure Library using third-party components, which may be distributed under licenses other than the Apache license. Licenses for individual library components may be found in source-code comments.
java.data                           1.3.113                   Utilities for working with Java beans from Clojure
jvm.tools.analyzer                  0.6.2                     An interface to Clojure's analyzer
pom.contrib                         1.3.0                     Parent POM for projects contributed to Clojure
pom.oss-deploy                      0.0.19                    Top-level parent POM enabling Sonatype OSS / central deployment for org.clojure artifacts from .
spec.alpha                          0.5.238                   Specification of data and functions
test.check                          1.1.1                     A QuickCheck inspired property-based testing library
tools.analyzer                      1.2.0                     An analyzer for Clojure code, written in Clojure and producing AST in EDN
tools.analyzer.js                   0.1.0-beta5               Provides js-specific passes for tools.analyzer
tools.analyzer.jvm                  1.3.2                     Additional jvm-specific passes for tools.analyzer
tools.emitter.jvm                   0.1.0-beta5               A JVM bytecode generator for ASTs compatible with tools.analyzer(.jvm).
tools.reader                        1.5.2                     A Clojure reader in Clojure

=== Artifacts Without Descriptions:  26
algo.generic                        1.0.1                    
algo.monads                         0.2.0                    
core.incubator                      0.1.4                    
data.codec                          0.2.0                    
data.generators                     1.1.0                    
data.priority-map                   1.2.0                    
data.zip                            1.1.0                    
java.classpath                      1.1.0                    
java.jdbc                           0.7.12                   
java.jmx                            1.1.0                    
math.combinatorics                  0.3.0                    
math.numeric-tower                  0.1.0                    
pom.baseline                        0.0.19                   
test.generative                     1.1.0                    
tools.build                         0.9.2                    
tools.cli                           1.2.245                  
tools.deps                          0.26.1553                
tools.deps.alpha                    0.15.1254                
tools.deps.cli                      0.13.115                 
tools.deps.graph                    1.1.90                   
tools.gitlibs                       2.6.206                  
tools.logging                       1.3.0                    
tools.macro                         0.2.1                    
tools.namespace                     1.5.0                    
tools.nrepl                         0.2.13                   
tools.trace                         0.8.0  

This is great, thanks!