Hello,

Why the names fix / to-fix ?

2013/2/20 Alan Malloy <a...@malloys.org>:
> Useful has functions that do this and more: fix or to-fix, according to
> taste. Your iffn is just the three-argument case of to-fix: (def magnify
> (to-fix pos? inc dec)). But fix and to-fix accept more or fewer arguments as
> well, so that (fix x pos? inc) is like (if (pos? x) (inc x) x), and (to-fix
> tall? shorten thin? fatten) is (fn [x] (cond (tall? x) (shorten x) (thin? x)
> (fatten x) :else x)).
>
> Basically both of these functions look through their clause pairs and apply
> the first transform whose test matches. fix takes its "focus" argument
> immediately, while to-fix returns a lambda that performs the requested
> operation.
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:53:57 PM UTC-8, James MacAulay wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes I find myself writing code like this:
>>
>> (defn magnify [n] (if (pos? n) (inc n) (dec n)))
>>
>> ...and I want to get rid of all those "n"s. I've looked for a macro like
>> this, but couldn't find it, so I wrote it:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/jamesmacaulay/4993062
>>
>> Using that, I could re-write the above like this:
>>
>> (def magnify (iffn pos? inc dec))
>>
>> I can imagine a condfn macro, too:
>>
>> (def magnify2 (condfn pos? inc
>>                       neg? dec
>>                       :else identity)
>>
>> Has this kind of conditional function composition been explored much? I
>> couldn't find anything like it in the standard library, but maybe I wasn't
>> looking hard enough.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James
>
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