On Aug 8, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> >>I'm looking for medium-scale examples of using function-generating 
> >>functions.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but this sort of 
> thing is pretty cool: 
> 
> (defn make-point [x y]
>   (fn [member]
>     (cond (= member :x) x
>              (= member :y) y)))

Nice.  I always enjoyed this variation on the whole make-point theme:

(defn make-point [x y]
 (fn [f] (f x y)))

(defn point-x [pt]
 (pt (fn [x y] x)))

(defn point-y [pt]
 (pt (fn [x y] y)))

(def pt (make-point 1 2))

(println  [(point-x pt)
          (point-y pt)])

-- 
-- Jim Weirich
-- jim.weir...@gmail.com





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