On Oct 23, 8:12 am, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 22, 6:45 pm, André Thieme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 23 Okt., 00:28, wwmorgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You can get most of the functionality you're looking for with partial > > > Yes sure. The thing is that currying is nothing but syntactical sugar. > > It's not the functionality I am missing, but it’s brevity which makes > > sense in functional programming style. > > > And partial doesn't allow me to have a simplified syntax for going > > over specific arguments, which makes sense, so having this > > throw-away underscore is nice IMO. > > Also partial can't repeat arguments, what we now can do with %1, %1. > > I think, in general, this proposal, while interesting, has the > difficulty that it reduces the power of #() to not much more than > currying, and has some presumptions that need to be checked. > > For instance, all examples were specific, without a generalization of > the functionality, which hides a problem: > > #(...) currently expands to (fn [args*] (...)) > > I'm not sure there is a good general definition of what you have > described. It seems to presume that ... will be an ordinary function > call which can be converted into an apply. But it need not be so: >
I am dubious of the curry proposal, and there are already valid questions about it raised in this thread. However, I am also reminded of the "Design Rationale" section of http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-26/srfi-26.html which argues against an autocurrying mechanism for Scheme. While not identical to what's being proposed here, the srfi and attendant discussion is a good exploration of currying like mechanisms in a language where primitive function application doesn't support it. Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
