Re: Best practices for named arguments

2012-06-15 Thread David Jacobs
Very cool, this is exactly what I wanted. Thanks. On Friday, June 15, 2012 7:27:05 AM UTC-7, Gunnar Völkel wrote: > > Hello David. > I have a very similar scenario according to named parameters liker you. > Therefore I have written the library clojure.options which can be found > here: > https://

Re: Best practices for named arguments

2012-06-15 Thread Gunnar Völkel
Hello David. I have a very similar scenario according to named parameters liker you. Therefore I have written the library clojure.options which can be found here: https://github.com/guv/clojure.options The latest version is also on clojars. Greetings, Gunnar -- You received this message becaus

Re: Best practices for named arguments

2012-06-15 Thread Marcus Lindner
I think the best is to use maps. It is rarly a good idea to have too many arguments. Am 15.06.2012 08:51 schrieb "David Jacobs" : > TL;DR: I want to know best practices for designing functions with multiple > optional arguments. > > Okay, so I'm working to build machine learning algorithms in Cloj

Re: Best practices for named arguments

2012-06-15 Thread David Jacobs
Ah I see, I didn't realize I could apply the general-descend algorithm to both atoms and arrays to get a flattened list. Thanks! On Friday, June 15, 2012 12:05:36 AM UTC-7, Meikel Brandmeyer (kotarak) wrote: > > Hi, > > you can use destructuring to provide defaults. And you can easily curry in

Re: Best practices for named arguments

2012-06-15 Thread David Jacobs
I'm not sure you read the whole question. I want to know how to delegate optional arguments to other functions with the same method signatures. On Friday, June 15, 2012 12:04:00 AM UTC-7, Vinzent wrote: > > TL;DR: I want to know best practices for designing functions with multiple >> optional ar

Re: Best practices for named arguments

2012-06-15 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer (kotarak)
Hi, you can use destructuring to provide defaults. And you can easily curry in options when passing things through. (defn general-descend [xy ys & {:keys [gradient-fn cost-fn yield-fn alpha iterations thetas] :or {cost-fncost yield-fn println alpha 0.0

Re: Best practices for named arguments

2012-06-15 Thread Vinzent
> > TL;DR: I want to know best practices for designing functions with multiple > optional arguments. > Use destructing: (defn f [required & {:keys [foo bar] :or {foo :default}}] [required foo bar]) (f 3 :bar 1 :foo 2) ;=> [3 2 1] (f 3 :bar 1) ;=> [3 :default 1] -- You received thi