> Memoize takes the ignored argument into account 
> when associating the inputs with outputs.

This is the answer I was looking for. I feel like this is the subtlety that 
I had missed. 




On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 5:24:55 AM UTC-4, Moe Aboulkheir wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 1:58 AM, Sam Ritchie <sritc...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Seems like a good use of “delay”, yeah? Slightly different calling 
>> semantics, of course, but still:
>>
>> user> (def f (delay (gensym "node")))
>> #'user/f
>> user> @f
>> node3330
>> user> @f
>> node3330
>>
>
> The original code wanted different behaviour - a distinct gensym for each 
> distinct input.  Memoize takes the ignored argument into account when 
> associating the inputs with outputs.
>
> user> (def mapped-gensym (memoize (fn [_] (gensym "alias"))))
>
> user> (mapped-gensym "HI")
> alias29367
> user> (mapped-gensym "HI")
> alias29367
> user> (mapped-gensym "NOT HI")
> alias29372
>
> Take care,
> Moe
>

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