Sorry, I meant to link this post: http://blog.fogus.me/2010/09/28/thrush-in-clojure-redux/
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Jay Fields <j...@jayfields.com> wrote: > reading material: > http://blog.fogus.me/2009/09/04/understanding-the-clojure-macro/ > > When you say (-> 3 (partial f 2)) that evaluates to (partial 3 f 2) - > which is obviously not what you want. > > Likewise, (-> 3 fp) expands to (fp 3), which works fine, as you noticed. > > The important thing to remember is that the threading operator is a macro. > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, larry <larrye2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I trying to grok partial and -> so I have the following example. >> >> (defn f[x y] (+ x y)) >> >> ((partial f 2) 3) works as expected , returning 5 >> >> but if I try to use -> >> >> (-> 3 (partial f 2)) >> >> I get #<core$partial$fn__3796 clojure.core$partial$fn__3796@4c629f43> >> >> But if I first define >> >> (def fp (partial f 2)) >> >> then >> >> (-> 3 fp) returns 5 as expected >> >> What's going on ? >> >> -- >> 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
