Hello Fons, (my former answer was to Brian)
I tried this one, actually. But the result is really used as output of the adventure 'game' here. So the namespace prefix must not be there. Thank you for the answer, alux On 18 Mrz., 21:50, fons haffmans <fons.haffm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just did this : > > (defn describe-path [path] > `(there is a ,(second path) going ,(first path) from here.)) > > which gives me : > (describe-path (list "left" "right")) > (user/there user/is user/a (clojure.core/second user/path) user/going > (clojure.core/first user/path) user/from here.) > > Sure, it prepends the namespace to the symbol. Is that the issue ? > I thats the the case I guess you can use something like (concat...). > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:25 PM, alux <alu...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hello! > > > I much enjoyed reading the tutorialhttp://www.lisperati.com/casting.html > > , mentioned by eyeris today. The most mind-extending thing (to me, > > having Java background) is the, admittedly non-idiomatic, use of > > symbols as data. > > > 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? > > > Thank you, alux > > > -- > > 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<clojure%2bunsubscr...@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. -- 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.