2013/2/20 Alan Malloy <a...@malloys.org>: > You can use fix to take some data that might not be right (say, an integer > that might actually be a string) and "fix" it by applying read-string: (fix > "10" string? read-string). to-fix returns a function you can use to fix > things.
OK, I thought there was some more generic meaning to it (for the OP's initial need, I'm not sure the name fix would convey appropriate semantics, for instance) Cheers > > > On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:06:36 AM UTC-8, Laurent PETIT wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Why the names fix / to-fix ? >> >> 2013/2/20 Alan Malloy <al...@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 >> > >> > -- >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "Clojure" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to clo...@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+u...@googlegroups.com >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "Clojure" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an >> > email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >> > > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
