Clip/Aero Reference Alignment

[jvia]

Using Clip and Aero in combination has been a great experience so far. The only UX issue I run into on my team is the difference between how Clip and Aero refer to other pieces of the edn config. It could be nice to have alignment or a doc example on how to create align on a per-project basis.

Here are some examples, one with alignment on the Clip syntax and the other with alignment on the Aero syntax. I suspect the Aero syntax would be achievable on a per-project basis by defining custom reader tags.

clip

{:configuration
 {:port 300}

 :components
 {:database  {:start (some.ns.database/start)}
  :webserver {:start (some.ns.webserver/start
                      {:port     (aero/ref :port)
                       :database (clip/ref :database)})}}}

aero

{:configuration
 {:port 300}

 :components
 {:database  {:start (some.ns.database/start)}
  :webserver {:start (some.ns.webserver/start
                      {:port     #aero/ref :port
                       :database #clip/ref :database})}}}

[SevereOverfl0w]

One downside I've noticed when there's alignment is that people get confused about when to use which. Having the two syntaxes might help delineate the two kinds of reference, unsure.