On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Alan Malloy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 8:12 pm, Andy Fingerhut <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ugh. And if I were slightly lazier at pressing the send button, I would > > have realized that the laziness of map and remove gives this > short-circuit > > evaluation. > > > > I generalized your example to allow the notation [- keyfn] as an argument > > to specify descending order on that key, instead of ascending order. It > > doesn't check its arguments carefully, but if you give it correct > > arguments, it works :-) > > Just use comp: (sort-by (multicmp f (comp - g)) coll) > > I don't see how to make that work if the value extracted by function g is something besides a number, e.g. a string. Do you see a way? Thanks, Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
