Thanks everyone - I was leaning towards maps and sounds like that's the
preferred approach.
On 26 April 2014 10:59, Gary Trakhman <gary.trakh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If it's more than a few parameters, I prefer maps.. It enables the
> possibility of things like merge.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Andrey Antukh <n...@niwi.be> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have the same doubt!
>>
>> However, At this time, I prefer use a explicit map instead keywords,
>> because for me is much clear that using keywords.
>>
>> Andrey.
>>
>>
>> 2014-04-26 0:41 GMT+02:00 Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm working on an API at the moment, and I'm balancing whether to use
>>> inline keyword args which I would destructure in the functions, or whether
>>> to just pass an explicit params map as the last parameter. Comparison of
>>> the two options in case I'm not explaining myself well:
>>>
>>> Kwargs:
>>> (class/create-class :instance list
>>> :description "My description"
>>> :implements (keys class-methods)
>>> :methods (calculate-my-methods))
>>>
>>> Map:
>>> (class/create-class {:instance list
>>> :description "My description"
>>> :implements (keys class-methods)
>>> :methods (calculate-my-methods)})
>>>
>>> A lot of APIs I've seen have favoured kwargs, and it undeniably makes
>>> for some pretty code - Seesaw is the best example I've seen here, the API
>>> is a thing of beauty. However it seems to me to have some issues:
>>>
>>> 1. If I want to delegate to another call from within an API function
>>> and use the same arguments, it's really awkward: (apply delegate
>>> (mapcat identity args)) or some similarly awful black juxt magic. Or
>>> of course writing out all the parameters again, but that's even worse.
>>> 2. It's more difficult to make parameters optional based on some
>>> runtime criteria since the params are baked into the function call. I
>>> guess
>>> this is usually dealt with by making the calls handle nil for a
>>> particular
>>> parameter.
>>>
>>> Both of these are much easier when passing an explicit map. Any
>>> preferences here, from either writing or using APIs like this?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
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