Hi Tim, Thank you.
-- Kind regards Stephen. On 11 December 2017 at 23:58, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I talked a bit about this in my video on Boolean Blindness: https://www. > youtube.com/watch?v=K1LaaJMscCc > > Might be worth a watch. > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Stephen Feyrer <stephen.fey...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I have been trying to shake this thought for a while now. Essentially, >> my thought was if you can return a function why not decision component of >> an IF, WHEN or SOME statement? That would give you a re-usable named >> choice. >> >> Then you could write: >> >> (celebration: do-something do-something-else) >> >> >> This would be equivalent to writing: >> >> (def success [apples bananas pears]) >> >> (defn celebration: [x y] (if (empty? success) x y)) >> >> (celebration: (do-something do-something-else)) >> >> >> I'm reasonably certain of the foolishness of this thought but >> occasionally, I have doubts. >> >> Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree or possibly I've seen something like >> this before and forgotten about it. Perhaps, this is just taking things >> too far... Either way, it's deferring the choice until it's needed. In >> the right hands it could make for more readable code. >> >> For completeness sake, to define the first form above you'd use: >> >> (defc celebration: (if (empty? success))) >> >> >> A more usable example might look like: >> >> (def nums [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8]) >> >> (defc even-nums: (some (even? nums))) >> >> I guess this makes the real question, is it a good thing to be able to >> defer choice like this? >> >> >> Btw, defc would be like def-choice but other options might be deft - >> def-test or defp - def-predicate. >> >> >> -- >> Kind regards >> >> Stephen >> >> -- >> 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 >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> 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 >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking > zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C > programs.” > (Robert Firth) > > -- > 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 > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
