Dave, Yes, this is perfectly idiomatic and many people in Clojure (and also Haskell, for example) use let to help document how they're building up their computation.
Stuart's suggestion is also good and it's largely a matter of personal preference which to use when. Of course, as you use clojure more, you'll probably become more comfortable with more complex statements and not use the let style quite so much. Tom On Oct 19, 8:19 pm, Dave Ray <dave...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm parsing a file with a chain of filter and map operations. To make > it a little more readable (to me), I put the steps in a let like this: > > (defn parse-dictionary > [reader] > (let [lines (read-lines reader) > trimmed (map #(.trim %1) lines) > filtered (filter is-dictionary-entry? trimmed)] > (map parse-entry filtered))) > > Is this style of let considered good/bad stylistically? Are there > technical tradeoffs between this and a bunch of nested forms? > > Thanks! > > Dave -- 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
