As most people will tell you, the prefix notation is more natural in Lisp-like languages. However, I sometimes wonder if adding a Haskell infix operator (grave accent changes the argument order) could be a good idea in some situations; for example (2 `+ 3) -> (+ 2 3).
On Nov 28, 3:54 pm, Dmitri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of I'd like to say that I find Clojure to be an excellent > language, however I find the lack of infix operators makes reading > equations somewhat unnatural, eg: > > (+ (- (* x x) (* y y)) a) > > I ended up writing a simple function to handle infix notation > > (defn infix [arg1 func arg2 & args] > (let [result (func arg1 arg2)] > (if (= args nil) result (recur result (first args) (second > args) (rrest args))))) > > using that I find makes the code more readable: > > (infix (infix x * x) - (infix y * y) + a) > > I was wondering if there is a more elegant way to do this, and if it > could be added as a standard or contrib function. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
