Re: when is a zipper better than get-in ?

2012-12-11 Thread Brian Marick
On Dec 11, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Nando wrote: > Thanks! I bought and started reading your book. Seems excellent so far, and > wanted to say that I particularly appreciate your stated willingness to help > those of us with no experience in functional programming. I'm pleased to hear that. --

Re: when is a zipper better than get-in ?

2012-12-11 Thread Nando
Brian, Thanks! I bought and started reading your book. Seems excellent so far, and wanted to say that I particularly appreciate your stated willingness to help those of us with no experience in functional programming. Nando On Dec 11, 2012, at 20:14, Brian Marick wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2012

Re: when is a zipper better than get-in ?

2012-12-11 Thread Russell Whitaker
I just downloaded the sample PDF for FP-OO, and it's delightful; I'll be springing for a copy myself. Russell On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Brian Marick wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Brian Marick wrote: > > If you want to "edit" trees, using zippers is often much much easier > t

Re: when is a zipper better than get-in ?

2012-12-11 Thread Brian Marick
On Dec 11, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Brian Marick wrote: > If you want to "edit" trees, using zippers is often much much easier than > collection functions. I find the code easier to understand, too. I almost forgot to make a shameless plug for /Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programm

Re: when is a zipper better than get-in ?

2012-12-11 Thread Brian Marick
On Dec 11, 2012, at 12:48 PM, larry google groups wrote: > > I am sorry for the dumb question, but zippers are for looping over nested > collections, yes? Why can't I just use get-in for that? When would I need a > zipper? If you want to "edit" trees, using zippers is often much much easier

when is a zipper better than get-in ?

2012-12-11 Thread larry google groups
I am sorry for the dumb question, but zippers are for looping over nested collections, yes? Why can't I just use get-in for that? When would I need a zipper? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to cloj