On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 28, 10:29 am, Stuart Sierra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I feel like "econdp" would be less clear, since you don't know what >> kind of exception should be thrown. Plain old Exception? Or >> RuntimeError? > > The kind of error is TBD, but it won't be random. It saves everyone a) > redundantly having to specify this, and b) specifying needlessly > different Exceptions and messages on no matching case. It's pretty > useful in CL. > >> >> > Finally there is the name, which has to follow the form and function. >> > If we go with something like the last above, I like condp/econdp. >> >> I'm not sure about condp, only because Clojure hasn't used the CL-ish >> "-p" suffix anywhere else. Ideas: condfn, fcond, cond-apply, cond- >> with, try-each,... > > This wouldn't match the use of trailing p in CL, which has been > replaced by ? in Clojure. I like leading with cond so it sorts > together to make people aware of the option. I don't think I like any > of those better - whatever it is should be short. >
I also like it leading with cond, so condp or condf, but econdp doesn't fit, so condpe? Having a general naming convention like trailing F would be nice, I've needed that type of thing before - assuming this can be generalized. How about :error as the last clause (test with no expr, or optional expression) instead of a different macro? Though :error could be a conflict if that was really one of the tests, so maybe define clojure/error? I disliked looking up so many different macros for this in CL. Also, would you want an error variant or option for cond? -Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
