You never "need" & when you are defining your own functions. It's equivalent to declaring that your function takes one argument, a vector, and then always wrapping up in a vector whatever args you want to use.
On Apr 15, 11:05 am, Avram <aav...@me.com> wrote: > Thank-you, I think that works for me! I do need the & to be able to > take in a variable number of arguments, but it looks like I can call > "vec" to convert this to a vector, then call the read-files-into- > memory function that now will take a single argument. Such an elegant > language but difficult to search for things like args or % or & to > find answers ;) > > Best, > Avram > > On Apr 15, 1:10 am, Alan <a...@malloys.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I would do it by making read-files-into-memory take a single argument, > > a list of filenames, rather than N arguments, each of which is a > > filename. Just drop the & in the function's definition and you should > > be done. > > > On Apr 14, 4:21 pm, Avram <aav...@me.com> wrote: > > > > Yes, I am missing a way to turn the [& filenames] into something like > > > "name1" "name2" … > > > > How might this be done? (I am not certain what "type" this would be, > > > a stringified version of each item in the sequence, not a sequence > > > itself! ) > > > > (defn read-files-into-memory > > > [ & filenames ] > > > (print filenames) > > > (map #(read-json-filename %1) filenames)) > > > > Many thanks, > > > Avram -- 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
