On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I reworked my initial proposal according to the comments > of Rich. The syntax now looks as follows: > > (condp predicate expr > test-expr result-expr > test-expr :> result-expr
What is ":>"? Is that just a keyword whose name is ">"? I think adding more characters with special meaning makes code harder to read, so I hope we don't add more of these. > ... > default-expr) > > A result-expr is chosen according to (predicate test-expr expr). > In the first form, result-expr is simply evaluated and the result > is returned. In the second form, result-expr is expected to > evaluate to a function. This function gets passed the return > value of the predicate call. Whatever the function returns > is returned by condp. > > If no test-expr leads to a success the default-expr is evaluated > and the result returned. If no default-expr is supplied an > exception is thrown. > > The patch is attached at the issue tracker. > http://code.google.com/p/clojure/issues/detail?id=6#c2 > > Comments appreciated. > > Sincerely > Meikel > > -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
