On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 24.02.2009 um 22:25 schrieb Mark Volkmann: > >> Right. That's what I'm doing now ... in many places. I was just asking >> if there is a single function that combines them. It seems reasonable >> to have one since those to functions seem to be called together a lot. > > That's interesting. I almost never use doall or dorun together with > map. I found that most side-effects don't give interesting result values. > And generating a lazy seq of nils which is then realized seems > ugly to me. > > Using doall together with map is maybe also a sign to check whether > it's possible to split the side-effects and result generation.
I mainly use it for adding temporary debugging code to a source file. For example, if I want to verify the contents of a vector and I want each item to be output on a single line, I might do this. (dorun (map #(println %) my-vector)) Of course the dorun call isn't needed in a REPL. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
