On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi <squee...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Mar 22, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: > >> Is .?. necessary? -> does the same job as .. by >> virtue of the .method notation, but is more general. >> So, why not get rid of .. and .?. completely? > > That sounds right to me, Meikel. I'm in favor of keeping only -?> .
Might I suggest "maybe->" ? This function has a strong similarity to the Maybe monad in Haskell and similar languages. "and->" would be another less Haskelly candidate, and is reminiscent of Scheme's "and-let*" which is also sort-of similar. Best, Graham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
