Hello, there has been plenty of time to speak about that in the previous thread on the subject, and it's a shame these interesting proposals had to wait for the release of the functionality to pop up :-).
But I think it's my fault: when nobody did additional comments on the thread, I considered one of the last proposals as silently accepted by most, and since it was one of Rich's proposals to use .?. and -?>, I took them. So I did not close the "brainstorming" with a "if everybody agrees, I'll use these names ... and write the patch". Concerning the fact that .. could be removed from clojure.core, why not. I suggest that the .?. version be removed when (if) .. is removed. Concerning the names, shouldn't maybe-> be reserved for the real monadic version (I haven't seen how monads are implemented in clojure, and I'm not sure the signature of a maybe-> monad would be the same as -?>) ? Regards, -- Laurent 2009/3/23 Graham Fawcett <graham.fawc...@gmail.com> > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
