I like that, that makes the code selfdescribing (is there such a word in english?)
On Mar 14, 2:58 pm, Craig Andera <craig.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > What about overloading first to accept a predicate? > > (first even? (iterate inc 1)) => 2 > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:58 AM, e <evier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Christophe Grand suggest (seek ...), which I personally like. > > > IMHO > > seek is pretty good for a number of reasons: short, implies first result. > > Minor objection would be that folks may not think it's what they want > > because of how it's used in C where they'd expect it to take a number of > > bytes and a block. (filter-one ...) or (find-first ...) are both ok to me > > ... and preferable to (first (filter ...)) the latter being an idiom you > > have to discover on your own. Another very minor problem with the idiom is > > that the docs say that filter returns a lazy sequence, but it doesn't say > > that the order has to be the same as how the original sequence would be > > consumed. Having an actual function makes the concept of "first" concrete. > > It unties it from filter having to be the implementation. > > > yeah (seek ...) is pretty good. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
