Hi Michael,
Thanks for the implementation suggestion. I left school 2 years only
so missed out on some of the more advanced mathematics, hence I was
unaware of the function and purpose of log. Since reading your post,
I've done a little bit of research on log as to educate myself. I've
now re-impl
Hi,
Am 04.02.2010 um 20:00 schrieb Erik Price:
> What kind of naming convention is appropriate for a function that
> operates on a sequence, and, as one of its return values, returns a
> new head for (or in other words a subsequence within) that sequence?
> For example, a function that consumes s
What kind of naming convention is appropriate for a function that
operates on a sequence, and, as one of its return values, returns a
new head for (or in other words a subsequence within) that sequence?
For example, a function that consumes some portion of a stream. Or is
it not conventional for a
On 4 February 2010 08:04, Wardrop wrote:
> (defn [n base]
> (loop [n n count 0]
> (if (< n base)
> {:val n :count count}
> (recur (float (/ n base)) (inc count)
>
> [ ... ]
>
> I mean, what the hell would you name this function, or would you not
> create such an obscure and gene
I would do as you do, finding a name, hopefully good enough to prevent
an imperative need to jump to the function definition when re-reading
the code 6 months later.
Anyway, would you have written this particular function as a method of
a class, would the problem of giving it a "short but meaningf
On 4 February 2010 09:04, Wardrop wrote:
> I often myself creating functions which perform a rather clear and
> simple task, but which is hard to describe, either because I don't
> know the term for what I've just implemented, or because the function
> is difficult to summarise in a couple of word
I often myself creating functions which perform a rather clear and
simple task, but which is hard to describe, either because I don't
know the term for what I've just implemented, or because the function
is difficult to summarise in a couple of words. As an example, I've
just created a function whi
A function would be named based on what it is that it does.
Difficulty naming functions would imply to me that the functions
involved do not contain a clear functionality.
The names of the functions should sort of be an 'emergent property' of
a larger process of reasoning through the programming
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Wardrop wrote:
> I've always struggled when it comes to defining good names for
> functions and methods. Now that I'm learning Clojure, function naming
> becomes even more imperative, as you don't have classes and objects to
> help give meaning to a method. I'm fi
