On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Murtaza Husain <murtaza.hus...@sevenolives.com> wrote: > What is the idiomatic use of partial. I understand it helps create closures, > however the reader notation also allows to the same. So when should partial > be use dover other forms of creating functions.
I have no idea if it is idiomatic or not but I've come to use partial whenever I want to use a function with the leading arguments fixed. The only times I use the `#` reader macro is when I need to fix an argument that's after the argument I want to map over or utilize. I find partial to signal my intent better in the cases where I'm trying to say "give me a new function with leading arguments fixed" vs. the reader macro which doesn't really signal my intent at all other than that I want an anonymous function that may do anything at all. Also partial clearly indicates that I'm doing a higher-order operation on an existing function which could lead to less cognitive overload, I suppose, when reading the code later on whereas the reader macro sort of has to be read thoroughly in order to understand what I was trying to do. Just my 2 cents. -- 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
