2009/3/18 Vagif Verdi <vagif.ve...@gmail.com>

>
> The power of functional programming is in small number of orthogonal
> functions. I'm afraid all these combination functions will quickly
> transform clojure into php.
> Besides it introduces several ways to do the same thing - more
> confusion (especially to newbies).
> Instead of littering the language with dothis-thendothis functions, i
> propose to add a compose operator like in haskell
> (. [first filter] ...)



The comp function in clojure.core does just this.
But it is a little bit verbose where I would have wished it more succinct,
though ... (but have yet no idea how more succinct it could be)

Maybe o like in math ? :  (o first filter) ?

-- 
Laurent

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