On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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".
No worries, Laurent. Sorry for not joining the discussion earlier. :-) Actually I think the "-?>" squiggle is quite a good name for this function. Best, Graham > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
