On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Rich Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm...
Do you want:
(max 1 2.1 4/5)
to work?
If so, you can't base it on Comparable, which generally only supports
homogenous types.
max, like , is a numeric operation as it stands, for the above and
speed reasons.
On Nov 4, 9:00 am, Christian Vest Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Rich Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 4, 2:56 am, Christian Vest Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Mark H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 3, 6:48
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Rich Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 4, 2:56 am, Christian Vest Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Mark H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 3, 6:48 pm, Cosmin Stejerean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think clearly
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Rich Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 4, 9:00 am, Christian Vest Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Generally by custom but not required by contract of the Comparable
interface. And those are all Numbers, right?
Comparable imposes natural ordering, and the
I have a kind of random question that may not make any sense, but I'm
going to throw it out there.
Is it possible to create generic macros? I mean macros are basically
a way to extend the compiler, right? Wouldn't it be useful to be able
to dispatch a macro based on the type hint of its
The strings I'm working with are ISO formatted dates, and one of the
reasons many people like to use ISO formatted dates is that they sort
easily. However, the specifics of the situation are really irrelevant.
I just thought it might be seen as incongruent that Clojure has an
elegant collection
On Nov 4, 2008, at 18:18, Paul Stadig wrote:
Is it possible to create generic macros? I mean macros are basically
a way to extend the compiler, right? Wouldn't it be useful to be able
to dispatch a macro based on the type hint of its parameters (or some
other criteria)?
A macro gets its
Metadata (including type hints) are attached to symbols by the reader,
so I'm thinking something like:
(def a 1)
(def b 2)
(defn greatest-by
Return the 'largest' argument, using compare-fn as a comparison function.
[compare-fn args]
(reduce #(if (pos? (compare-fn %1 %2)) %1 %2) args))
On Nov 4, 2:56 am, Christian Vest Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Mark H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 3, 6:48 pm, Cosmin Stejerean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think clearly spelling out how objects of a type should be sorted is
the point of the
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Rich Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 4, 2:56 am, Christian Vest Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Mark H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 3, 6:48 pm, Cosmin Stejerean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think clearly spelling
On Nov 3, 5:39 pm, Paul Stadig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could/Should the max function be modified to work against the
Comparable interface instead of expecting its arguments to be numbers?
I'm working with a sequence of strings that are dates in the
-mm-dd format, and I want to find the
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Mark H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 3, 6:48 pm, Cosmin Stejerean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think clearly spelling out how objects of a type should be sorted is
the point of the Comparable interface.
Ah, yes, this is true, I hadn't realized that String
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