the behavior of functions outside of their domain is undefined. I guess I still don't get it. why would you use a function on something outside of its domain? do people just pick functions at random to compose their programs?
2009/11/9 Tiago Antão <tiagoan...@gmail.com>: > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Kevin Downey <redc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I don't understand, the error message you get is the error that occurred. > > Both of them honor their documentation - no doubt. My point is not > that, my point is that the behavior is different between the 2 > functions for the same kind of issue: > > What is the rationale for even? and contains? having different > behaviors for the exact same error (ie, one throws the other works > fine and just returns false on a type error)? From a design > perspective this seems to increase the cognitive load to programmers > without any (apparent) reason. > > One would imagine that both functions should have the same behavior > for the same kind of error... > > > > -- And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
