OK, so I think the consensus is on the names .?. and -?> . No problem with me.
I'm willing to write the patch, but which patch ? I mean, do these macros deserve their own file (maybe not) ? Maybe adding them to the existing clojure.contrib.macros ? Or else, I was thinking about creating a new file named clojure.contrib.core since these are slight variants of existing core functions ? 2009/3/13 Stephen C. Gilardi <squee...@mac.com> > > On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:45 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi <squee...@mac.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I like these: >>> >>> .?. >>> -?> >>> >> > Given a choice between the two, I'd choose -?> >> > > The proposal was for naming "nil-safe" versions of the existing .. and -> > functions. > > (-> nil (. toString)) ==> NullPointerException > > (-?> nil (. toString)) ==> nil > > > (.. nil (toString)) ==> NullPointerException > > (.?. nil (toString)) ==> nil > > > Note: these are just simple examples. The point isn't the one argument, > literal nil case, but the case where many operations are "chained" or > "threaded" and at each point the propagated result may be nil. > > --Steve > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
