That's a good call. +1 On Friday, August 10, 2012 8:36:25 AM UTC-4, Jonas wrote: > > How about the new reducers library: > > > http://clojure.com/blog/2012/05/08/reducers-a-library-and-model-for-collection-processing.html > http://clojure.com/blog/2012/05/15/anatomy-of-reducer.html > > Jonas > > On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 7:48:23 PM UTC+3, Brian Marick wrote: >> >> I'm looking for medium-scale examples of using function-generating >> functions. I'm doing it because examples like this: >> >> (def make-incrementer >> (fn [increment] >> (fn [x] (+ increment x)))) >> >> ... or this: >> >> (def incish (partial map + [100 200 300])) >> >> ... show the mechanics, but I'm looking for examples that would resonate >> more with an object-oriented programmer. Such examples might be ones that >> close over a number of values (which looks more like an object), or >> generate multiple functions that all close over a shared value (which looks >> more like an object), or use closures to avoid the need to have some >> particular argument passed from function to function (which looks like the >> `this` in an instance method). >> >> Note: please put the flamethrower down. I'm not saying that "looking like >> objects" is the point of higher-order functions. >> >> I'll give full credit. >> >> ----- >> Brian Marick, Artisanal Labrador >> Contract programming in Ruby and Clojure >> Occasional consulting on Agile >> >> >>
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