Re: I am unclear on how I can call an Ifn stored in a map usefully

2010-06-23 Thread Tim Robinson
Perfect! And Thanks! Tim On Jun 22, 7:00 pm, Michał Marczyk wrote: > Firstly, consider using Delays rather than IFn. See (doc delay) and > (doc delay?). In Clojure, many sorts of things are IFns, including > (among others) sets, vectors and maps, and you probably don't want to > call those. > > (d

Re: I am unclear on how I can call an Ifn stored in a map usefully

2010-06-22 Thread Michał Marczyk
Firstly, consider using Delays rather than IFn. See (doc delay) and (doc delay?). In Clojure, many sorts of things are IFns, including (among others) sets, vectors and maps, and you probably don't want to call those. (def uhoh* (ref {:event {:date (delay (java.util.Date.)) :name "EOW"}})) (def why

Re: I am unclear on how I can call an Ifn stored in a map usefully

2010-06-22 Thread Daniel Gagnon
> >user=>(def current* (merge (uhoh* :event)(why* :event))) >#'user/current* > > here's my problem: > >user=> current* >{:stuff "ELI", :date #user$fn__2...@4fa3551c>, :name "EOW"} > > I was hoping this kind of a call would yield: > > {:stuff "ELI", :date "Tue 22 Jun 2010 17:

I am unclear on how I can call an Ifn stored in a map usefully

2010-06-22 Thread Tim Robinson
Hello Folks, I'm a noob to both programming (1 year part-time) and to Clojure (1 week). I am unclear on how I can call an Ifn stored in a map usefully and I am hoping you can help me. I have stored data in a few maps (both functions and data): user=> (def uhoh* (ref {:even