Thanks for all the help! I knew I could count on you guys.

I saw that there were a bunch of params in the constructor, but naively 
hoped there'd be some kind of default values for them so I didn't have to 
muck around with anything too much. Disappointed once again. I'll look into 
exactly what else I have to move around/import/instantiate before I can get 
the parser to "just work."

As for the comments about Clojure being difficult to use w/o knowing Java, 
aside from this unfortunate experience, I've found it pretty easy/not an 
issue. The automatic upgrading of integers to the appropriate underlying 
Java (/JVM) types, and the wrappers around Java's regex stuff are two good 
examples. I'd imagine it'd be much more difficult coming in cold, although 
TJOC and the other intro to Clojure book I read at least covered numerics 
and over/underflow pretty thoroughly. The other stuff (typed arrays, e.g.) 
keep out of your way unless you actively seek them out, so it's not a big 
deal either.

That being said, while "Just enough Java for Clojure," as Ivan and Michael 
discussed, might not be big enough on its own for a book/article, I, for 
one, would appreciate more on interop than I've seen, which tends to be 
along the lines of "use ClassName/staticThing for static things, use . for 
everything else, also .. and doto exist."

On Monday, September 8, 2014 4:49:12 PM UTC-4, Michael Klishin wrote:
>
>  On 9 September 2014 at 00:33:11, Ivan L ([email protected] 
> <javascript:>) wrote: 
> > For an enterprising clojure hacker, this is a good opportunity   
> > to write "Clojure for non-Java Hackers" and put it up on Pragprog.   
>
> Sounds more like "Just enough Java for Clojure". Which I think would have 
> too small an audience to be worth the effort. 
> --   
> @michaelklishin, github.com/michaelklishin 
>

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