Using a lambda seems to be a sane approach - (reduce #(and %1 %2) '(false false true)) ;=> false
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Peter Mancini <pe...@cicayda.com> wrote: > OK long time lurker here. I've been growing in my Clojure strength for a > while now. For the most part I think I get it and I have no problem getting > programs to do what I want. However, sometimes I get stumped. > > I have one function that produces a list of booleans like '(false false > true). It seemed to me that this should be legal: > > (reduce and '(false false true)) > > However that is not legal with the complaint being something about "and" > being a macro. :-/ > > I did get it to work with: > > (eval (conj '(false false true) 'and)) > > It works but is it "correct"? Is it what you would do? I noticed that '(nil > nil true) will cause "and" to produce false, so I am aware of that edge > case. Anything else I should be aware of? > > Thanks. > > -- > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose at gmail.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+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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
