On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Don Hill <dhill.nov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get a couple of edge cases to past and since I am very new > to clojure/lisp (2 days total) I thought I would ask. > > > I am using defmacro like the following. I have 2 edge case which are > failing. I would like to be able to process these cases where there are > extra bits and as you probably guessed the last 2 entries have keys with > not value. I don't thinks the :keys will work for these cases. > > Any ideas on how I could destruct this so all the cases would pass? > > (defmacro iif [expr & {:keys [then, else]}] > `(if ~expr ~then ~else)) > > (println(iif (> 3 1))) ;nil > (println(iif (> 3 1) :then 'ok)) ;ok > (println(iif (< 5 3) :else 'ok)) ;ok > (println(iif (> 3 1) :else 'oops)) ;nil > > (println(iif (> 3 1) :else 'oops :then 'ok));ok > ;;(println(iif (> 3 1) :then )) ;nil > Why do you want to support odd number of params after `expr`? How would you expect this to work: (iif expr :then :else) -> ??? > ;;(println(multi-if (> 3 1) :else 'oops :then (println'hi) 'ok)) ;;hi ok > I don't know what the implementation of multi-if looks like but the odd number of args after expr doesn't seem right to me. One last question; why are the branching code named/as a map? Why not (defmacro iif [expr then else]) which is equal to if or course? (if (> 3 1) nil nil) -> nil (if (< 5 3) nil 'ok) -> 'ok ...and so 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 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/d/optout. > -- Kind Regards, Atamert Ölçgen -+- --+ +++ www.muhuk.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/d/optout.