Thank you. My example was contrived as I was reading through the Clojure style guide (linked below). This kind of thing isn't specifically mentioned so I had the urge to try it and it works. That got me thinking that this would likely be bad style (hackish). I started Googling but did not find anything yet. It is interesting though.
https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Gary Trakhman <gary.trakh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Yes, I'd consider this bad style, for one, you don't get the arglists > metadata showing the names of variables during a repl session. That > metadata is on the var, and not the function itself. I'm not familiar with > Math/pow's function signature off the top of my head. > > I would consider it only in the specific case where you want a computation > to happen at compile-time, perhaps by calling a function that returns a > function (core.memoize, for instance). The work to set up the cache is > done during namespace initialization and never after. > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Frank Hale <frankh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Given the following code snippet would declaring a Var with an anonymous >> function be considered bad style? Would there be any real use cases where >> this would be regarded as a cleaner mechanism to declare a function rather >> than declaring one with defn? >> >> user=> (def pow #(Math/pow %1 %2)) >> #'user/pow >> user=> (pow 2 4) >> 16.0 >> >> -- >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
