As a newbie I got confused in the first place looking at codebases where partial was used, like your colleague said, it's in the docs:
"Takes a function f and fewer than the normal arguments to f, and returns a fn that takes a variable number of additional args. When called, the returned function calls f with args + additional args." I much prefer the #(), (fn[]) is longer so it's a no-go ;) On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Jay Fields <j...@jayfields.com> wrote: > > (do-work (partial say-hello "bob")) > (do-work #(say-hello "bob")) > > I'd been using partial (which I font-lock**), but a teammate recently > pointed out that partial's documentation explicitly calls out the fact > that the number of args to partial should be less than the number of > args to f. In practice it's been working 'fine', but I can't help but > wonder if I'm sacrificing something I'm not aware of (performance?) > > ** with a font-lock, using partial *displays* the same number of chars > as the reader macro solution, and I find it more readable when > everything is in the parenthesis. - > http://blog.jayfields.com/2013/05/emacs-lisp-font-lock-for-clojures.html > > -- > -- > 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.
