[bug#33215] [PATCH 05/11] guix: Add clojure-utils.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello!

I’m late to the party but I think there are things worth discussing
here.  Danny, for non-trivial bits, in particular in the (guix …) name
space, I think we should ping people to get more detailed review before
merging.

Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> skribis:

> From 857cce37325f01c26f79a6e15e33d7988ea4a0a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 03:09:48 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 05/11] guix: Add clojure-utils.
>
> * guix/build/clojure-utils.scm: New file.
> * gnu/packages/lisp.scm (clojure)[arguments]: Use it.
> * Makefile.am (MODULES): Add it.

[...]

> +(define-module (guix build clojure-utils)
> +  #:use-module (guix build utils)
> +  #:use-module (ice-9 ftw)
> +  #:use-module (ice-9 regex)
> +  #:use-module (srfi srfi-1)
> +  #:use-module (srfi srfi-26)
> +  #:export (%clojure-regex
> +            define-with-docs
> +            install-doc))
> +
> +(define-syntax-rule (define-with-docs name docs val)
> +  "Create top-level variable named NAME with doc string DOCS and value VAL."
> +  (begin (define name val)
> +         (set-object-property! name 'documentation docs)))

This is not necessarily a bad idea, but in general I’m very much in
favor of consistency: since we don’t use this anywhere else, I’d rather
not have it here either.  We could discuss it separately, but IMO it
shouldn’t be buried in a Clojure patch.

Thus I’d be in favor of using the same style in this file as in the rest
of Guix.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.