Yes, of course, thats what a sane person would do ;-) I mentioned in my later post, this usage of symbols as data is 1. non- idiomatic but 2. really illuminating for somebody with Java background. Well, and its what this tutorial does.
Nevertheless thank you for the answer! Kind regards, alux On 18 Mrz., 21:49, Brian Schlining <bschlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But I have two translation problems, I want to pose before going to > > sleep (its pitch dark in Europe :). First the easy one: > > > Common Lisp > > (defun describe-path (path) > > `(there is a ,(second path) going ,(first path) from here.)) > > > My Clojure version, I use a map: > > (defn describe-path [path] > > (let [what (path :kind) where (path :direction)] > > (concat '(there is a) (list what) '(going) (list where) '(from > > here.)))) > > > Thats much less elegant. Is there a nicer way? > > It looks like you really want a formated string (concat returns a sequence > not a string). You could use: > > (defn describe-path [path] > (format "this is a, %s, going, %s, from here" (path :kind) (path > :direction))) > > -- > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > Brian Schlining -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
