Hi Joshua,

I've gotten this far and then I get stuck when I try to do line 2 from
> the above:
> 1:  (defn compose [f g] #(f (g %)))


Try (defn compose [f g] (fn [x] (f (g x))))

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Aquahappy <joshua.ay...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm working through Brian Harvey's 61a 2008 SICP lecture (http://
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljOrUCqsixs) and could really use a hand
> translating a couple of simple lines from scheme to clojure.
>
> Here is the code:
>
> 1:  (define (compose f g) (lambda (x) (f (g x))))
> 2:  (define (twice f) (compose f f))
> 3:  (define fourth (twice sq))
> 4:  (fourth 3)
>
> I've gotten this far and then I get stuck when I try to do line 2 from
> the above:
>
> 1:  (defn compose [f g] #(f (g %)))
>
> Thanks in advance for any takers,
> Joshua
>
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