Hi,
Am 16.01.2010 um 01:48 schrieb Scott Burson:
> Certainly, this is a very common idiom in Common Lisp and other older
> dialects. I guess there are a few people who don't like it, but a lot
> of us do it routinely. You'll even see stuff like
>
> (or (try-to-construct-a-foo)
> (error
On Jan 15, 2:02 pm, Simon Brooke wrote:
> There's an old programmers hack that works in many languages of
> abusing the logical or operator to try a sequence of operations until
> one returns something useful. It appears that this works in Clojure,
> too.
Certainly, this is a very common idiom in
On Jan 15, 5:02 pm, Simon Brooke wrote:
> There's an old programmers hack that works in many languages of
> abusing the logical or operator to try a sequence of operations until
> one returns something useful. It appears that this works in Clojure,
> too.
>
> The reason I tried it is that I'm un
There's an old programmers hack that works in many languages of
abusing the logical or operator to try a sequence of operations until
one returns something useful. It appears that this works in Clojure,
too.
The reason I tried it is that I'm unhappy with Clojure's
implementation of cond. Consider
