Ah, makes sense. Thanks.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Mike DeLaurentis <delauren...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I believe it stands for "member function". From the doc string:
>
>  "Expands into code that creates a fn that expects to be passed an
>  object and any args and calls the named instance method on the
>  object passing the args. Use when you want to treat a Java method as
>  a first-class fn."
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Garth Sheldon-Coulson<g...@mit.edu> wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, does anyone know what memfn stands for? Is it an
> > abbreviation? Fn obviously stands for function. Mem calls to mind
> memoize,
> > but I'm not sure I see how memfn memoizes anything...
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>

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