Re: Not nil and 'true' with conditional functions

2009-01-23 Thread Vincent Foley
The return value of a function is the return value of its last expression. On Jan 23, 3:17 pm, wubbie wrote: > Is every function supposed to return something? > Of course, except for pure side-effects. > > -sun > > On Jan 23, 3:02 pm, Vincent Foley wrote: > > > The only two false values in Cloj

Re: Not nil and 'true' with conditional functions

2009-01-23 Thread Jason Wolfe
Every clojure function returns a value. Even if it is only used for side effects, it still has to return something (probably nil). -Jason On Jan 23, 12:17 pm, wubbie wrote: > Is every function supposed to return something? > Of course, except for pure side-effects. > > -sun > > On Jan 23, 3:02

Re: Not nil and 'true' with conditional functions

2009-01-23 Thread wubbie
Is every function supposed to return something? Of course, except for pure side-effects. -sun On Jan 23, 3:02 pm, Vincent Foley wrote: > The only two false values in Clojure are false and nil.  Everything > else is logically true.  If your function returns nil/false or a > result, you don't ne

Re: Not nil and 'true' with conditional functions

2009-01-23 Thread Vincent Foley
The only two false values in Clojure are false and nil. Everything else is logically true. If your function returns nil/false or a result, you don't need (not (nil? (...))) On Jan 23, 2:59 pm, BerlinBrown wrote: > Here is some code, my question relates to '(not (nil?...': > >  (if (not (nil? (

Not nil and 'true' with conditional functions

2009-01-23 Thread BerlinBrown
Here is some code, my question relates to '(not (nil?...': (if (not (nil? (regex-search-keyword (regex-get-text) line))) (add-select-style styles-vec all-bold) (add-select-style styles-vec light))) Could I have done the following or is (not (nil? ... a better approach.