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Rich Already Answered That!

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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Terminal Colors

There exists common confusion about terminal colors. This is what we have right now:

Plain ASCII
ANSI escape codes: 16 color codes with bold/italic and background
256 color palette: 216 colors + 16 ANSI + 24 gray (colors are 24-bit)
24-bit true color: "888" colors (aka 16 milion)

data

towards enlightenment

‘It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.’

	(ns miracle.tools.save
	(:require [clojure.walk :refer [postwalk]]))

	;; usage
	;;
	;; (save) or (save :whatever) somewhere in a function to save all the local
	;; bindings at that point in time.
	;;
	;; (save-func ...) where ... is the body of your functions (e.g. (defn hej [a]
	;; (save-func (let [b 5] (+ a b)))))