Thanks for the responses, guys. >> - Partially apply a function to any of its arguments, not just the >> first one
>That's already the case, haven't you made a little test ? I meant I want to apply it out of sequence, sorry. > You can easily partially apply to other arguments by doing this: #(fred %1 > some-arg %2 other-arg). That makes sense, thanks, though it's not any easier to unapply than partial. I guess I could make a new 'partial-like' function that returns code to apply a function, with nil's in unapplied argument slots... ? > Not possible as far as I know. Could you please explain use cases you have > in mind for such a feature ? Sure, it's the lazy cells I've been working on. When a cell's parent changes, I don't want it to compute right away- I want it to recognize the new value, but switch to an un-evaluated state. Since the cell has no value, it would be nice if its children could just un-apply their update functions on it. I won't explain how I'm doing it right now for fear of muddying the waters, but it feels overcomplicated and un-idiomatic. Thanks, Anand On Feb 26, 4:00 pm, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/2/26 Jeffrey Straszheim <straszheimjeff...@gmail.com> > > > "partial" is a currying function. It can be provided any number of > > parameter(s), but it is always behaves sequentially from start to finish. > > That is what currying *is*. > > Ah, I thought currying / uncurrying what the term reserved for this > operation (as I remember from Haskell) that changes the arity of functions ( > transforming and untransforming a function of n parameters into a function > of a tuple of n elements) ? > > > > > You can easily partially apply to other arguments by doing this: #(fred %1 > > some-arg %2 other-arg). > > > "partial" could not easily support "unapplying" it. > > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Anand Patil < > > anand.prabhakar.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Hi all, > > >> I could use a version of 'partial' that would allow me to: > > >> - Partially apply a function to any of its arguments, not just the > >> first one > >> - 'Unapply' a partially-applied function from one of its arguments. > > >> Is any such thing already available? > > >> Thanks, > >> Anand --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
