And thinking about it (after pressing "send", of course), you'd get the same benefit from destructuring an explicit map in the function parameter anyway, wouldn't you?
On 30 April 2014 22:11, Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote: > But that's only true for the variables which are explicitly destructured > in the function definition, which in my experience many are not - they're > often later picked out of an ":as args" argument, perhaps dependent on a > combination of the parameters which are explicitly destructured. Seesaw > never does this, for example. I think it's dangerous to rely on this rather > than the documentation since it's often an incomplete view of what the > function requires. > > Cheers, > Colin > > > On 30 April 2014 21:03, Joachim De Beule <joachim.de.be...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> my two cents: >> >> The extra readability to users when using keyword args also comes from >> the fact that a function's options are explicit in its signature. So during >> development, instead of having to look them up in the docs or in the code, >> my emacs mini-buffer simply shows them to me. Although I do agree with all >> the good reasons against keywords arguments, to me this is still the >> decisive reason to prefer them... >> >> Joachim >> >> Op woensdag 30 april 2014 05:41:29 UTC+2 schreef James Reeves: >> >>> On 30 April 2014 03:54, Sean Corfield <se...@corfield.org> wrote: >>> >>>> I still think the keyword argument approach is far more readable to >>>> _users_ >>> >>> >>> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > -- 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/d/optout.