On Jan 15, 2:02 pm, Simon Brooke <still...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> There's an old programmers hack that works in many languages of
> abusing the logical or operator to try a sequence of operations until
> one returns something useful. It appears that this works in Clojure,
> too.
Certainly, this is a very common idiom in Common Lisp and other older
dialects. I guess there are a few people who don't like it, but a lot
of us do it routinely. You'll even see stuff like
(or (try-to-construct-a-foo)
(error "Couldn't construct a foo"))
-- Scott
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