Hi Nathan, There is actually a simple answer to your question. map can take a fuction of multiple parameters along with multiple collections. i.e.
(defn f [x y] (+ x y)) (map f [1 2] [3 4]) => (4 6) (Warning I did this computation in the Clojure instance in my head, so some details may be slightly off.) Paul On 3/31/09, Nathan Sorenson <n...@sfu.ca> wrote: > > First of all, I would like to thank Rich and this community for > producing such a pleasurable language, and for putting up with with > all the unpleasant nit-picking of new users. That being said... > > I am curious as to why the function parameter is specified before the > collection parameter in map/reduce. I have never used a lisp before, > and may not be aware of idiomatic style, but it seems to be the > convention elsewhere in Clojure (assoc, conj, .method calls, etc...) > to have the "altered" data structure be the first parameter. > > Would this not allow mixing map into a threaded expression: > > (-> [1 2 3] > (map inc) > (assoc 0 4) > (reduce +) > (conj :anotherthing)) > > Perhaps this style is rare in practice? Certainly it is easy enough to > write a custom map/reduce which acts this way, so I suppose my > question is mostly philosophical. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
