morning

yogidevbear: how goes the learning?

moaning

Morning. otfrom: feeling excited to learn some more. Think I'll need to revisit chapter 3 a few more times though. Lots to take in. For example, I can't remember the use cases for let

For the most part though everything makes a lot of sense so hopefully I'll be slightly proficient in the not too distant future

morning

@yogidevbear: are there use-cases for let other than to bind a variable ?

well that could be the only use case that I couldn't remember 😉

Like I said, lots to absorb in that chapter

I'm hoping it's only a few small things that I'll need a refresher for

are you coming to clojure from another language?

Yes. I originally studied Java, then worked for 18 months for a .NET company and then took a job where I had to learn ColdFusion (cfml) and have been working mostly in ColdFusion since (about 7 or 8 years now I think)

yogidevbear: seancorfield has done a lot of cfml stuff. He might have some things to show they way they moved from cfml to clojure for a lot of things on his blog

a lot of us here have/are using java

then (let [x 1] …) is approximately equivalent to doing auto x = 1; inside a function in C#

i don’t know the equivalent in cfml

Yeah, I follow Sean quite closely

I use his cfml framework (fw/1) which he's porting to clj now too