Hi Timothy, This is not really related to the current thread (sorry), but I want to say thanks for this API examples page, it looks like it'll be a great help, just what I need! Somehow I'd managed to completely miss it until now when you mentioned it - either I'm partially blind, or it could be better advertised?
Cheers, Craig On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Timothy Pratley <timothyprat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2:49 pm, wubbie <sunj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Very criptic for newbie. >> What does "Threads the expr through the forms." mean? > > Shameless plug, if you find learning from examples easier than textual > descriptions, you might want to look up > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming/Examples/API_Examples > I'm trying to fully cover the entire API with snippets and examples as > I come across them... its pretty well fleshed out now, but still some > gaps to fill > > In this case the entry is: > > -> > > user=> (-> "hello" .toUpperCase (.replace "H" "J")) > "JELLO" > > However -> works on everything > user=> (-> true (if inc dec) (map [1 2 3])) > (2 3 4) > > or expanded > (map (if true inc dec) [1 2 3]) > > So one can also use macros and normal functions in ->, ie. non- > methods. > > > In this case -> is pretty difficult to get your head around in either > example or textual though, so YMMV :) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
