Glen Stampoultzis <gst...@gmail.com> writes:

>     (sort-by :last-name #(compare %2 %1) persons)
>    
>
> Actually having put forward that second example there I'm not sure how
> it actually works.  The docs suggest that the 2nd parameter needs to
> implement Comparator (peeking at the source confirms this) but compare
> returns back a number. It is possible this might be just working by
> accident.

For convenience all Clojure fns implement Comparator (as well as
Callable and Runnable).  Documented here:

http://clojure.org/special_forms#fn

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