On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Laurent PETIT<laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks very interesting ! > > One question: wouldn't seem more natural to have transient named transient! > and persistent! named persistent ? > > I see a call to transient as "Enter the mutable world", so it seems to me > (transient! []) conveys more this meaning than (transient []). > > I see a call to persistent! as "Enter back the immutable world", so > (persistent v) seems more interesting than (persistent! v) ? > > And also, there may be the use case where some pure functions would protect > their arguments by calling persistent! on them : > > This: > (defn some-fn [v] > (let [v (persistent v)] ...) > > looks better in a pure function than this: > (defn some-fn [v] > (let [v (persistent! v)] ...) > where the ! catches the eye ... >
The transient function has no side effects, the persistent! function does, thus the names. Rich --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
