Hi, Thorsten, Yes, you're right, once inside a function, the function is already being applied. I mean that within the function, there's a test for whether the input variable needs to be changed or not. Sort of vacuous application if conditions are not met.
Yes, an enriched facility for pattern matching would be nice. I use a bit of regular expression, a last resort for me. << Is there any reason to test additional rules after one matches, or would it be beneficial to stop after a match? >> Yes, the input may violate more than one spelling rule. So it is essential that the output of a function feeds the next one. Thanks for the help. Tuba On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> wrote: > On 07/28/2011 06:34 PM, Tuba Lambanog wrote: > > The determination of whether a called function will apply is left as a >> responsibility of the function itself, rather than the calling >> function. The motivation is that a function may be called from a >> number of places. Perhaps there's a better way? >> > > The called function cannot decide to not be applied, but it may either > evaluate to its argument (assuming unary), or a value derived from that > argument. > > I guess pattern matching would be nice here, but even without, you could > perhaps split the conditions from the actions. Is there any reason to test > additional rules after one matches, or would it be beneficial to stop after > a match? That would make it similar to URL routing like e.g. Moustache does > it. > > From your description, it did sound like you want to call the 2nd function > with the original argument, not the result of the 1st function. But how > would you accumulate all the results, then? > > > -- > Thorsten Wilms > > thorwil's design for free software: > http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ > > -- > 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+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/clojure?hl=en<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
