On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Neale Swinnerton <ne...@isismanor.com> wrote: > if designing from scratch should we favour being threadable with -> or ->> ?
My understanding is that the two threading macros are there to support two existing standard idioms in Clojure: * functions operating on collections tend to have the collection in the last argument slot (so you use ->>) * other functions - where the first argument is usually the cascade point so you use -> (I remember reading a better articulated explanation than that but can't find the link easily - hopefully you get the idea) -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- -- 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.
