I find the suite of ->, ->>, anonymous functions, partial, and comp sufficient for my needs, with each having its place.
My only grumble is that "partial" is a lot of characters. I would love a one-character alternative, if it could be reasonably intuitive. Stu > On Oct 16, 10:22 pm, Sean Devlin <francoisdev...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In order to generate closures, every function should take parameters >> first, and data at the end, so that they work well with partial. > > It's really hard to come up with a consistent practice that works well > for all scenarios. Even clojure.core is inconsistent in this regard > -- the sequence fns take the seq at the end, the collection functions > (like assoc) take the collection first. > > Whichever way you design your functions, half the time the arguments > will be in the wrong place for what someone wants to do. If you want > a purely compositional style, the only way to do it is to only allow > single-argument functions, a la Haskell. > > -SS > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
