coincidentally, me and my brother wrote this while on the train to rubyconf last year:
https://github.com/mikejones/mississippi havent put any docs or anything on there (its only a couple of functions), but is essentially a validation function that take a map (the thing to validate) and another map (the validations to apply) and returns the original map with an :errors map assoc'd to it. comes with a couple of pre-baked validation functions, but not many. works pretty well for the use cases i currently have... *shrug* On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:53 PM, James Reeves <jree...@weavejester.com> wrote: > On 12 April 2011 22:04, Joost <jo...@zeekat.nl> wrote: >> For now, I think of the pretzel library as the lowest useful level of >> abstraction for input tests. And for low level abstractions, I prefer >> to place a higher value on correctness, extensibility, consistency and >> possibly even performance (in roughly that order) than ease of use >> from a direct programmer's stand point. > > I think I agree. > >> It might be better to put those predicates in a numeric >> namespace or library that doesn't address strings at all, maybe >> relying on a conversion layer somewhere if your input is really string- >> based, or maybe to have string-based counterparts relying on the >> numeric tests. > > That's a good idea. Perhaps something like: > > (defn from-string [f] > (comp f parse-number)) > > (from-string (in-range 1 10)) > > But with a better name than "from-string". > > - James > > -- > 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 -- 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
