> What is this convention you are using with the -> ? > > Are you coming from a C or C++ background or is this something lispy > I haven't seen before?
A fair proportion of Common Lispers do that (though I've witnessed debates about its merit, usually in the context of low-level code where the symbols are already cluttered with [-_+>] etc), exploiting the much richer options for symbol names than most languages. It's certainly not a dereferencing operation, which is the only context in which it would arise for a C/C++ user. Usually it means "to", either as a conversion or lookup. (defn ref->commit [ref] ...) thus means "take this ref and give me the corresponding commit (in the context of this repo)". Similarly, (defn tree-entry->map [e] ...) takes a Git tree entry string and returns a Clojure map that represents it. This is slightly less confusing than `tree-entry-map`, which could very well mean some mapping construct over a tree entry, or a map of multiple tree entries, or something else. I haven't been entirely consistent, though -- witness `tree-entry- seq`, which should really be `tree-entry->seq`. I said it was a work in progress :) I suppose in Clojure we could use a real arrow character, with UTF-8 available in symbol names... -R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
