Clojurians Log v2

Just now uploaded a new version that supports more functions (those with certain cross-package/namespace dependencies).

Fields in structs can now be access (as GoVar objects) via (Go obj :FieldName). Also, besides (deref govar) to get the underlying value of a GoVar, a rudimentary assignment (that works only for string types at the moment) is now available as in (Go govar := newval).

Other types are now supported by (Go govar := newval).

Not sure what I think about the assignment syntax.

The Go* functions are not really intended for use by applications and are probably temporary until and unless we figure out what would be more Clojure-like while respecting the semantic differences between Go and Clojure/JVM. E.g. this fork (if not canonical Joker) should at some point support (.field object) to get the value of a field in a (struct) object, just as it should support (type. vals...) as an abbreviation for (new type vals...).

In particular, I couldn't find any existing Clojure form that provided the semantic equivalent of Go's obj.field = some-value, though reset! comes closest.

set! looks like it covers the analogous case in Clojure and ClojureScript. See http://clojure.github.io/clojure/branch-master/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/set! and http://cljs.github.io/api/cljs.core/setBANG

But having said that, I didn't appreciate that the Go* functions weren't really supposed to be for public use. It makes sense to introduce idiomatic forms later.

As for the fork, I was wondering if it would be helpful to have its own name. I find it really awkward to say out loud but 'Gojure' would make a lot of sense :P I'll note that there are two existing projects with this name on GitHub.

Ha!

I looked at set! and reset! earlier, but thought they weren't good fits at the time...can't recall why now, though.

I'll go ahead and replace (Go var := val) with (set! var val).

Actually, Joker already has var-set, which seems closer.

New version pushed, docs updated, thanks for the suggestion!

(Might still want to add set! someday.)